GARETH ATKINS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5521016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | GARETH ATKINS |
| GIVEN NAMES | GARETH |
| FAMILY NAME | ATKINS |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens’ College , Cambridge , UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape
Journal Article A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape Get access A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. xx + 492. £90). Gareth Atkins Gareth Atkins Queens' College, Cambridge, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age, by Frances Knight
Over the past twenty years, historians have tended to follow Callum Brown in locating the ‘death of Christian Britain’ in the 1960s. To advance that argument, Brown emphasised the grip of a post-Victorian ‘discursive Christianity’ anchored in gendered moral codes, and underpinned by the restless energy of spiritual entrepreneurs. While this story has been criticised by Jeremy Morris, Clive Field and others for mashing denominations together into …
Hilary M. Carey, Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875
Scott D. Ayler, The Letters of Henry Martyn, East India Company Chaplain
The Making of a Tory Evangelical: Lord Shaftesbury and the Evolving Character of Victorian Evangelicalism, by David Furse-Roberts
Isaiah's Call to England: Doubts about Prophecy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Prophetic thought in nineteenth-century Britain has often been presented as divided between those mostly evangelical constituencies who ‘believed' in its literal fulfilment in the past, present or future and those who ‘doubted' such interpretations. This essay seeks to question that division by tracking the uses of one set of prophetic passages, those concerning the ‘Ships of Tarshish’ mentioned in Isaiah 60: 9 and elsewhere. It examines their ap…
William Jowett’s Christian Researches: British Protestants and Religious Plurality in the Mediterranean, Syria and the Holy Land, 1815–30
[Acre,] Sunday, Nov. 2, 1823 —This morning, in the Consul’s room, we held Divine Service, with a congregation of ten souls — as promiscuous an assembly as could well be expected within the compass of so small a number. The individuals who composed it were, a British Consul — his Dragoman, a native of the country — a Maronite Priest — a Roman Physician — one Greek — one Jew — an English captain of a merchant vessel then in port — my servant, who i…
Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake
Journal Article Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake Get access Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2014; pp. 281. £75). Gareth Atkins Gareth Atkins Magdalene College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 544, June 2015, Pages 76…
Christian Heroes, Providence, and Patriotism in Wartime Britain, 1793–1815
The use by British crowds of victorious admirals to articulate patriotic and libertarian ideas during the wars of the long eighteenth century is well known. But conflict also posed awkward questions about masculinity and issues surrounding it. Was military prowess compatible with politeness, with religiosity? During the 1790s, the fight to the death with revolutionary France made such questions hard to ignore, being compounded by the fact that Br…
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion, by Kirstie Blair
Kirsty Blair’s new book starts with a straightforward premiss: ‘when Victorian poetry speaks of faith, it tends to do so in steady and regular rhythms; when it speaks of doubt, it is correspondingly more likely to deploy irregular, unsteady, unbalanced rhythms’ (p. 1). Victorian poets and critics, she argues, were themselves well aware of this. For believers, language, verse form, rhythm and genre were to be regular because the universe itself wa…
Idle Reading’? Policing the Boundaries of the Nineteenth-Century Household
In April 1805 the Christian Observer reviewed George Burder’s Lawful Amusements , a sermon preached earlier that year in London and recently published. Burder was a leading Independent minister, ‘a serious man, employed about serious things’, his son later recalled, and the Christian Observer might have been expected to approve. Yet it was clear that the reviewer thought he had gone too far. The sermon, he complained, ‘might more properly be enti…
Anglican Evangelical Theology, c. 1820–1850: The Case of E dward B ickersteth
The period between the 1780s and the 1830s is widely acknowledged to be a formative one for Anglican Evangelical identity. It was the age of S imeon, W ilberforce, and the C lapham S ect, a time when polite culture became imbued with moral seriousness, and when pious causes came to the centre of the political stage. Yet while it is equally well known that the late 1820s witnessed a significant change in mood and direction, prompted by the passing…
True churchmen’? Anglican Evangelicals and history, c .1770–1850
In the first half of the nineteenth century the relationship between the Church of England and the state shifted dramatically. This influenced, and was in turn influenced by, heated debates about Anglican history in general and about the Reformation in particular. Some of the bitterest debates revolved around differing understandings of the Church’s foundational literature – the Articles, Homilies and Prayer Book – and what they stood for. These …
Christian Heroes, Providence, and Patriotism in Wartime Britain, 1793–1815
The use by British crowds of victorious admirals to articulate patriotic and libertarian ideas during the wars of the long eighteenth century is well known. But conflict also posed awkward questions about masculinity and issues surrounding it. Was military prowess compatible with politeness, with religiosity? During the 1790s, the fight to the death with revolutionary France made such questions hard to ignore, being compounded by the fact that Br…
True churchmen’? Anglican Evangelicals and history, c .1770–1850
In the first half of the nineteenth century the relationship between the Church of England and the state shifted dramatically. This influenced, and was in turn influenced by, heated debates about Anglican history in general and about the Reformation in particular. Some of the bitterest debates revolved around differing understandings of the Church’s foundational literature – the Articles, Homilies and Prayer Book – and what they stood for. These …
True churchmen’? Anglican Evangelicals and history, c .1770–1850
In the first half of the nineteenth century the relationship between the Church of England and the state shifted dramatically. This influenced, and was in turn influenced by, heated debates about Anglican history in general and about the Reformation in particular. Some of the bitterest debates revolved around differing understandings of the Church’s foundational literature – the Articles, Homilies and Prayer Book – and what they stood for. These …
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion, by Kirstie Blair
Kirsty Blair’s new book starts with a straightforward premiss: ‘when Victorian poetry speaks of faith, it tends to do so in steady and regular rhythms; when it speaks of doubt, it is correspondingly more likely to deploy irregular, unsteady, unbalanced rhythms’ (p. 1). Victorian poets and critics, she argues, were themselves well aware of this. For believers, language, verse form, rhythm and genre were to be regular because the universe itself wa…
Idle Reading’? Policing the Boundaries of the Nineteenth-Century Household
In April 1805 the Christian Observer reviewed George Burder’s Lawful Amusements , a sermon preached earlier that year in London and recently published. Burder was a leading Independent minister, ‘a serious man, employed about serious things’, his son later recalled, and the Christian Observer might have been expected to approve. Yet it was clear that the reviewer thought he had gone too far. The sermon, he complained, ‘might more properly be enti…
Anglican Evangelical Theology, c. 1820–1850: The Case of E dward B ickersteth
The period between the 1780s and the 1830s is widely acknowledged to be a formative one for Anglican Evangelical identity. It was the age of S imeon, W ilberforce, and the C lapham S ect, a time when polite culture became imbued with moral seriousness, and when pious causes came to the centre of the political stage. Yet while it is equally well known that the late 1820s witnessed a significant change in mood and direction, prompted by the passing…
William Jowett’s Christian Researches: British Protestants and Religious Plurality in the Mediterranean, Syria and the Holy Land, 1815–30
[Acre,] Sunday, Nov. 2, 1823 —This morning, in the Consul’s room, we held Divine Service, with a congregation of ten souls — as promiscuous an assembly as could well be expected within the compass of so small a number. The individuals who composed it were, a British Consul — his Dragoman, a native of the country — a Maronite Priest — a Roman Physician — one Greek — one Jew — an English captain of a merchant vessel then in port — my servant, who i…
Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake
Journal Article Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake Get access Religion in the British Navy, 1815–1879: Piety and Professionalism, by Richard Blake (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., 2014; pp. 281. £75). Gareth Atkins Gareth Atkins Magdalene College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 544, June 2015, Pages 76…
Christian Heroes, Providence, and Patriotism in Wartime Britain, 1793–1815
The use by British crowds of victorious admirals to articulate patriotic and libertarian ideas during the wars of the long eighteenth century is well known. But conflict also posed awkward questions about masculinity and issues surrounding it. Was military prowess compatible with politeness, with religiosity? During the 1790s, the fight to the death with revolutionary France made such questions hard to ignore, being compounded by the fact that Br…
Isaiah's Call to England: Doubts about Prophecy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Prophetic thought in nineteenth-century Britain has often been presented as divided between those mostly evangelical constituencies who ‘believed' in its literal fulfilment in the past, present or future and those who ‘doubted' such interpretations. This essay seeks to question that division by tracking the uses of one set of prophetic passages, those concerning the ‘Ships of Tarshish’ mentioned in Isaiah 60: 9 and elsewhere. It examines their ap…
Hilary M. Carey, Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875
Scott D. Ayler, The Letters of Henry Martyn, East India Company Chaplain
The Making of a Tory Evangelical: Lord Shaftesbury and the Evolving Character of Victorian Evangelicalism, by David Furse-Roberts
Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age, by Frances Knight
Over the past twenty years, historians have tended to follow Callum Brown in locating the ‘death of Christian Britain’ in the 1960s. To advance that argument, Brown emphasised the grip of a post-Victorian ‘discursive Christianity’ anchored in gendered moral codes, and underpinned by the restless energy of spiritual entrepreneurs. While this story has been criticised by Jeremy Morris, Clive Field and others for mashing denominations together into …
A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape
Journal Article A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape Get access A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War, by Michael Snape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. xx + 492. £90). Gareth Atkins Gareth Atkins Queens' College, Cambridge, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
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