The British Jesus, 1850-1970

Meredith Veldman (Louisiana State University, USA)

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Routledge
06 April 2022

British & Irish history; History of religion; Christianity; The historical Jesus; Sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

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 and among British New Testament scholarship, institutional Christianity, and the wider Protestant culture. The scholars who mapped and led the uniquely British quest for the historical Jesus in the first half of the twentieth century were active participants in efforts to replace the popular image of “Jesus in a white nightie” with a stronger figure, and so, they hoped, to preserve Britain’s Christian identity. They failed. By exploring that failure, and more broadly, by examining the relations and exchanges between popular, artistic, and scholarly portrayals of Jesus, this book highlights the continuity and the conservatism of Britain’s popular Christianity through a century of religious and cultural transformation.

Exploring depictions of Jesus from over more than one hundred years, this book is a crucial resource for scholars of British Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

By: Meredith Veldman (Louisiana State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032147956
ISBN 10: 1032147954
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 06 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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).