1st Edition

The British Jesus, 1850-1970

By Meredith Veldman Copyright 2022
414 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

414 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

414 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. An essay in intellectual as well as cultural history, this book illumines the interplay between... Read more

Introduction: Jesus in Britain, 1850-1970

1. The Victorian Jesus and the German Challenge

2. Decades of Crisis and Opportunity: Jesus in the 1860s

3. Jesus in the Fifth Gospel

4. Visualizing Jesus: Artistic and Religious Controversies

5. William Holman Hunt’s Quest for a Protestant Jesus

6. The Spectacular Jesus

7. Jesus and British Scholarship Before World War I

8. The Apocalyptic Jesus in Britain

9. The Children’s Jesus

10. Jesus on the BBC

Postscript: Continuities: Jesus in the 1970s

Biography

Meredith Veldman is a professor of history at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish history, as well as twentieth-century Europe. Her recent publications include Margaret Thatcher: Shaping the New Conservatism (2016).