A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859

A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bellon, Richard (Historian)
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Series:Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, volume 14
Subjects:
Church of England > History.
Self-denial > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Virtue > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Patience > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Humility > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Ethics > Great Britain > History.
Oxford movement > History.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Great Britain > Moral conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The meaning function of patience and humility
  • Common things to speak of the meaning of patience and humility in the nineteenth-century British imagination
  • From virtue to duty the Victorian application of patience and humility to social and intellectual life
  • Part 2. The eighteenth century
  • Character and morality in eighteenth-century British thought
  • The utility of virtue
  • Patience, utility and revolution
  • Part 3. Oxford
  • Oxford and the age of reform
  • The Oxford movement faith and obedience in a tumultuous and shifting world
  • Faith and reason in Newman's university sermons
  • The Hampden affair : divergent paths out of a spiritual wilderness
  • Thomas Arnold confronts the "Oxford malignants"
  • The Tamworth letters : virtue and science
  • Tract go and the trial of patience in the Church of England.

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