TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosman,Doreen M.
TI  - Evangelicals and culture
SN  - 9780227900987
AV  - BR1642.G7 R67 2012eb
U1  - 280/.4 23
PY  - 2012///, ©2011
CY  - Cambridge, U.K.
PB  - James Clarke & Co.
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Front cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. The Story of Evangelicalism 1790-1833; 2. The Theology of Evangelicalism; The World of Nature; The 'Nature of Man'; The Life of the World; 3. Faith and Fashion; Public Amusements; God and Mammon; 4. Faith and Family Life; 5. Faith and Fun; 6. Faith and Harmony; 7. Faith and the Fine Arts; Evangelicals and Art; The Artists of Evangelicalism; 8. Faith and Fancy; The Quality of Evangelical Criticism; The Range of Evangelical Reading; Evangelicals and the Novel; Theology and Culture; 9. Faith and Thought; The Place of LearningThe Limits on Curiosity; Epilogue; Bibliography; A. Periodicals; B. Other Printed Primary Sources; C. Autobiographies, Letters, Journals, Biographies, and Memoirs (listed in order of subject); D. Selected Secondary Reading; Back cover
N2  - Nineteenth-century evangelicals have often been dismissed as anti-intellectual and philistine. This book draws on periodicals, memoirs and letters to discover how far this was true of British evangelicals between 1790 and 1833. It examines their leisure pursuits along with their enjoyment of art, music, literature, and study, and concludes that they shared the thought and taste of their contemporaries to a far greater extent than is always acknowledged. What is more, their theology encouraged such activities. Evangelicals regarded recreations which engaged the mind, or which could be pursued w
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