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General

  • A Timeline of Religion and Philosophy
  • The Warfare of Conscience with Theology in Victorian Britain
  • Victorian Science and Religion

Denominations

  • Arminianism
  • The Church of England (or the Anglican Church), the Established Church
    • Church of England: An Introduction and Brief History
    • The 39 Articles of Religion
    • The Anglican Book of Common Prayer and Victorian Values
    • The Book of Common Prayer: Its Literary and Cultural Influences
    • "Parish": a definition
  • The Evangelical Movement
    • Introduction
    • Evangelicalism (Overview/Sitemap)
    • Evangelical Doctrine
    • The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England (extended discussion)
    • The Olney Hymns
    • Evangelical Popular Science Publishing
    • Positive Influence on English Society
  • High Church (Tractarians, Oxford Movemnt)
    • Introduction
    • The Tractarian Movement
    • John Henry Newman
    • John Keble
    • Edward Pusey
    • Isaac Williams' Tractarian Cathedral
    • The Ritualist Movement
  • The Broad Church, or Liberal Anglicanism
    • Introduction
    • Thomas Arnold
    • Dr. Arnold and the Meaning of Anglican Liberalism
    • Thomas Arnold, Rugby's great reforming headmaster
    • Muscular Christianity
    • Essays and Reviews
  • Muscular Christianity and Christian Socialism
    • F. M. Maurice
    • Charles Kingsley

Roman Catholicism

  • Introduction
  • Catholicism in Britain: An Overview
  • Old Catholics
  • New Converts
  • Papal Infallibility
  • Reestablishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in Britain

Dissenters

  • Introduction
  • The Dissenting Ethos
  • Baptists
  • Congregationalists
  • Covenanters
  • Methodism
    • Introduction
    • The Cultural Influence of Methodism
  • Moravians
  • Plymouth Brethren
  • Presbyterianism
  • Henry Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Puritanism in England
  • Puritanism in America
  • Quakers, or the Society of Friends
  • Politics and Theology in Victorian Dissent
  • The Protestant Fight for Jewish Civil Liberties in Victorian England

Traditions, Alternative

  • Unitarianism
  • Ethical Arguments against Religion in Victorian Britain
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Boehme
  • Comteian Positivism
  • Deism
  • Judaism in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Occultism
  • William Paley and Natural Theology
  • Philosophy Overview
  • Spiritualism
  • Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
  • Emanuel Swedenborg and Swedenborgians

The Bible, Interpretation, and Religious Symbolism

  • Apocalyptics
    • Victorian Apocalyptics
    • Three Victorian Schools of Interpretation
    • Historical Approaches
  • Prophecy
    • The Four-part Pattern of Prophecy
    • Thomas Scott on Prophecy
  • Typology (Figuralism)
    • Overview
    • Moses Striking the Rock
    • Pisgah Sight
    • Ruskin and the Rainbow
  • Broad Church, Historicist, and Rationalist Approaches
    • The Higher Criticism
    • Bishop Colenso and Literal Truth of Bible
    • Frederick Temple and Broad Church Conceptions of the Bible
  • Liturgical Colors
  • The Gutenberg Bible (British Library)

Related Literary Genres and Modes

  • Commentaries
  • Hymns
  • Religious poetry
  • Sermons
  • Tracts

Bibliography

  • Suggested Readings
  • Victorian Religious Periodicals
  • Some Pre-Victorian Religious Texts (Including Scripture) Available On-Line

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Last modified 29 March 2006