The Victorian Period, Evangelicalism, however,
was one creed that permeated all denominations. It emphasized the centrality an
authority of the Bible. It laid stress on the faith in the atoning death of
Jesus Christ.
If we just
scan the figures of censuses about the number of churches and chapels that were
built in Victorian Ara. The money was spent on holy activities, the bills for
the reforms of the church, that were passed by the parliament, the propaganda ,
that was carried out by the various demolitions, the tracts loaded with
controversies, that came frequently before the reading public. We will have no
doubt left about the extraordinary, that the English people indulge in on the
issue of religion in the Victorian period. In a matter of morality Prince
Albert was a stickler and it was him,' who insisted on spotless character, the
queen not caring a straw about it' the Duke of Wellington told the diarist
Charles Grevile.
The prince
was 'extremely strait-laced' a royal dinner party became a conspicuous model of
decorum. Sunday observance and bible reading were works in which the whole
nation took part. The prosperity of the English merchant was due to his
honesty, his shrinking from ostentation in addition, his thrifty ways. What he
did not spend on pleasure he saved for investment in works both temporal and
divine.
The most
important aspect of the religious outlook of the Victorian was their emphasis
on conduct. A sentence in the life of cardinal operating by Leslie Shane is the
one that could repeat mutatis mutandis of the majority of the famous
Victorians. To a Victorian trader, last judgment appeared as real as the week's
balance sheet hell and heaven as certain as tomorrow sunrise and evangelicalism
made otherworldliness an everyday proposition, as real as his business
enterprise.
Evangelicalism,
however, was one creed, that permeated all denominations. It emphasized the
centrality an authority of the Bible. It laid stress on the faith in the
atoning death of Jesus Christ. It revived the simplicity of the Gospel. The
evangelists, in the nineteenth were descendants in a way of the Methodists in
the eighteenth century, although the former was a movement inside the church
and the latter ramified into the various small sects. It was the Zealous
attitude of the Methodists that all denominations adopted.
The accent
of the Bible as a source of guidance in life, underlined the importance of
authority and an object of worship for all Englishmen. Somehow, the Bible could
not remain as sacrosanct as it was in the hands of the brothers John and
Charles Wesley and George Whitfield in the eighteenth century. The super
structure of the code of conduct built because of a particular book of the
Bible could clash with a similar one built because of another.
For the
common man the authority of the Bible appeared confused. Darwin's theories on
the origin of species, natural selection and descent of man on the one hand and
the Tubingen School of higher criticism of the other, shook the faith of the
more enlightened public in the Bible as the authentic word of God. Darwin's
theory was reduced to the simple controversy over man's descent from monkeys.
This is important information about the religious temper of the Victorian age.
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