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The making of a Tory evangelical : Lord Shaftesbury and the evolving character of Victorian evangelicalism / David Furse-Roberts ; foreword by Caroline Cox.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1532654316
  • 9781532654312
Other title:
  • Lord Shaftesbury and the evolving character of Victorian evangelicalism
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making of a Tory evangelical.DDC classification:
  • 362.924 23
LOC classification:
  • BX5125 .F87 2019
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: identifying the "inner impulse" -- Part 1: Ashley and the Anglican Evangelical tradition. Ashley's expression of Anglican Evangelicalism ; Continuity and change from Clapham -- Part 2: Ashley and the tradition of paternalism. Surveying the contours of Ashley's paternalism ; Imbibing paternalism: St. Giles, Southey, and Sadler ; The place of Ashley's paternalism within the Tory and Whig traditions -- Part 3: Ashley and the emerging synthesis of Evangelicalism and Tory paternalism. A convergence of Tory paternalism ; Ashley and the factory reform movement ; "Something admirably patrician in his estimation of Christianity" -- Part 4: Ashley and the milieu of Victorian Evangelicalism. Locating Ashley's place within the Victorian Evangelical terrain ; Premillennialism: they kingdom come, they will be done ; Desire for the nations ; Repudiating "Romanism," "ritualism," and "rationalism" ; Home and hearth ; Sanctifying Sundays ; Evangelical benevolence and Tory "self-reliance" -- Conclusion: a conservative and a reformer.
Summary: As one of Victorian Britain's pre-eminent social reformers, Lord Shaftesbury (1801-85) exerted a lasting impact surpassing all of his parliamentary contemporaries. Despite being born into one of England's aristocratic families, a combination of early childhood deprivation, an earnest Evangelical faith, and an abiding sense of noblesse oblige made him a champion of the poor. His seminal contribution to the Victorian factory reform movement represented just one of his manifold legacies. This contextual study of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury probes the mind behind the man to evaluate the religious and philosophical ideas, and their leading figures, that ignited his lifelong activism in the public sphere. This book reveals that far from representing a relic of the Victorian age, the Earl of Shaftesbury, whilst a conservative by predilection, was essentially a forward-looking and farsighted reformer. The principles that Shaftesbury espoused of industrial justice, class harmony, subsidiarity, volunteerism, selfless individualism, religious observance, strong families and private enterprise tempered by moderate state intervention are essentially those prized by liberal democracies today as the foundation for social cohesion, prosperity, and human flourishing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: identifying the "inner impulse" -- Part 1: Ashley and the Anglican Evangelical tradition. Ashley's expression of Anglican Evangelicalism ; Continuity and change from Clapham -- Part 2: Ashley and the tradition of paternalism. Surveying the contours of Ashley's paternalism ; Imbibing paternalism: St. Giles, Southey, and Sadler ; The place of Ashley's paternalism within the Tory and Whig traditions -- Part 3: Ashley and the emerging synthesis of Evangelicalism and Tory paternalism. A convergence of Tory paternalism ; Ashley and the factory reform movement ; "Something admirably patrician in his estimation of Christianity" -- Part 4: Ashley and the milieu of Victorian Evangelicalism. Locating Ashley's place within the Victorian Evangelical terrain ; Premillennialism: they kingdom come, they will be done ; Desire for the nations ; Repudiating "Romanism," "ritualism," and "rationalism" ; Home and hearth ; Sanctifying Sundays ; Evangelical benevolence and Tory "self-reliance" -- Conclusion: a conservative and a reformer.

As one of Victorian Britain's pre-eminent social reformers, Lord Shaftesbury (1801-85) exerted a lasting impact surpassing all of his parliamentary contemporaries. Despite being born into one of England's aristocratic families, a combination of early childhood deprivation, an earnest Evangelical faith, and an abiding sense of noblesse oblige made him a champion of the poor. His seminal contribution to the Victorian factory reform movement represented just one of his manifold legacies. This contextual study of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury probes the mind behind the man to evaluate the religious and philosophical ideas, and their leading figures, that ignited his lifelong activism in the public sphere. This book reveals that far from representing a relic of the Victorian age, the Earl of Shaftesbury, whilst a conservative by predilection, was essentially a forward-looking and farsighted reformer. The principles that Shaftesbury espoused of industrial justice, class harmony, subsidiarity, volunteerism, selfless individualism, religious observance, strong families and private enterprise tempered by moderate state intervention are essentially those prized by liberal democracies today as the foundation for social cohesion, prosperity, and human flourishing.

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