How did Anglicans read the Bible 200 years ago? This book invites you into the world of nineteenth-century Anglican biblical interpretation. It draws on sermons, memoirs, and commentaries to show the interesting, compelling, and sometimes confusing ways that Anglicans read the Bible. The book contains new research on Charles Simeon, Benjamin Jowett, John Keble, Christina Rossetti, F.D. Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, and many others.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1Background: the Interpretation of Scripture and Nineteenth-Century
Anglicanism
2Book in Outline: Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth
Century
1 Charles Simeon and Evangelical Interpretation
1Charles Simeon, Evangelical
2Charles Simeon on the Nature of Scripture
3Charles Simeons Exegesis of the Old Testament
4The Gospels and Christology
5The Role of Earlier Interpreters and Evangelical Trajectories
6Broadening the Horizons
2 Bishops of Durham and the Doctrine of Scripture: J. B. Lightfoot and B. F.
Westcott
1Two Bishops of Durham
2J. B. Lightfoot and the Text of Scripture
3Lightfoot the Theologian?
4B. F. Westcott on History and Theology
5Westcott and Exegesis
6Broad Church, Broader Interpretation
3 Benjamin Jowett and Broad Church Interpretation
1From Scripture to Text: Shifts in Anglo-European Scriptural
Interpretation
2The Broad Church, Scripture, and Benjamin Jowett
3Jowett on Scriptures Ontology and Providence
4Authorship and History for Trench and Jowett
5Frederic William Farrar: Providence and Progress in History
6From Interpretation to Application: Jowett on Scriptural Meaning
7Jowett on Language: Expanding the Interpretive Horizon
8The Next Leap: Tractarian Interpretation
4 John Keble and Tractarian Interpretation
1The Oxford Movement and the Interpretation of Scripture
2Keble on the Parable of the Good Samaritan
3Another Take on the Parable of the Good Samaritan: Richard Chenevix
Trench
4Figural Reading Keble and Pusey
5Patristic Authority? Competing Accounts in Keble and Trench
6Keble and Trench on Providence
7Tractarian Interpretation in Summary
5 Another Angle on Tractarian Interpretation: Christina Rossetti
1Christina Rossetti: Tractarian
2Figures of Scripture, Figures of Nature
3Rossetti and Scriptures Inexhaustibility
4Church Tradition and Interpretation
5Moving beyond Tractarianism
6 Pushing the Boundaries: F. D. Maurice
1F. D. Maurice and the Problems of Categorization
2Situating Maurices Theological and Scriptural Background
3Discerning Gods Communication: Maurices Interpretation of Scripture
4An Exegetical Portrait of F. D. Maurice
5Toward Orthodox Trajectories
7 Richard Chenevix Trench and Orthodox Interpretation
1The Orthodox Movement in the Nineteenth Century
2Trenchs Scriptural Conservatism
3Trenchs Scriptural Traditionalism: an Augustinian Heritage
4Trench on Scripture: a Cohesive Vision
5Toward a Critical Evaluation
Conclusion
1Summary: the Trajectory in Retrospect
2Tracing Lines to the Present
3Theological Gleanings
Bibliography
Index
Cole William Hartin, Ph.D., Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto, is an Associate Rector at Christ Church Episcopal in Tyler, Texas. He has published scholarly articles on nineteenth-century Anglicanism, as well as many popular articles and poems.
