Useful Industry and Muscular Christianity: George Augustus Selwyn and His Early Years as Bishop of New Zealand
| Autor: | Allan K. Davidson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in Church History. 37:289-304 |
| ISSN: | 2059-0644 0424-2084 |
| Popis: | Charles Kingsley in 1855 gave the following dedication to his novel, Westward Ho!:To the Rajah Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., and George Augustus Selwyn, D.D., Bishop of New Zealand this book is dedicated, by one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters.That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practical and enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has tried to depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer and more heroic than that in which he has drest it.Brooke, the adventurer, soldier, and colonial administrator, and Selwyn, the missionary colonial bishop, appealed to Kingsley as exemplars of what he called ‘Christian manliness’. One of Kingsley’s reviewers, T. C. Sandars, described Kingsley as ‘spreading the knowledge and fostering the love of a muscular Christianity’. The defining characteristics of this ‘muscular Christianity’, a term with which Kingsley was uneasy, were ‘an association between physical strength, religious certainty, and an ability to shape and control the world around oneself’. |
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