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Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865

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 Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865
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In this study of the British upper and middle classes during the first half of the 19th century, Boyd Hilton reveals that the people of this age were obsessed with catastrophe: wars, famines, pestilences, revolutions, floods, volcanoes, and the great commercial upheavals which periodically threatened to topple the world's first capitalist system. The dominant evangelical sentiment of the day interpreted such sufferings as part of God's plan and, not wanting to interfere with the dispensations of providence, governments took a harsh, stand-on-your-own-feet attitude towards social underdogs, whether they were bankrupts or paupers. In this work, Hilton studies how the transformation of religious thought--including new ideas about the nature of God and the Atonement--affected the economics, philosophy, science, and politics of the period.

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AGE OF ATONEMENT

Format: Paperback
Pages: 428
Product Weight: 1.53 lbs
Author: Hilton, Boyd
Publication Date: 1992-01-30
Language: English
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Dewey Decimal Classification: 306.309
Number of Units in Package: 1

ISBN: 9780198202950