The Victorian Christian Socialists

by Edward Norman

Book Overview

Victorian Christian Socialism began as a protest against industrial evils by a group of Anglicans in 1848 - the year of the great Chartist demonstration. In F. D. Maurice it had a prophet and a thinker whose ideas inspired subsequent Christians, so that the ideals of the original Christian Socialists began to spread to other Churches. The result was a series of critiques of the England of their day, rather than a systematic 'movement', and is best...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521530512
• ISBN13: 9780521530514
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"