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Author_Jessica Ann Hughes
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Catholicism
Charles Kingsley
Christ-figure
Christianity
domestic ideology
domesticity
Eliza Lynn Linton
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female Christ
George Eliot
Mary and Christ
Mary Augusta Ward
morality
religion
theology
Victorian Christmas
Victorian culture
Victorian morals
Product details
- ISBN 9781350278196
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith—even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus’ identity to evolve.
Jessica Hughes is Director of Liberal Arts and Assistant Professor of English and Theology at George Fox University, USA.
