Timothy Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 72335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wheaton College - Illinois |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6607-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
If Christ Came to Chicago: W. T. Stead and Transatlantic Crossings
The bestselling book, If Christ Came to Chicago , was published in 1894. It was a work of sensationalist, exposé journalism, documenting with titillating details the city’s rampant vice, dire social problems such as unemployment and homelessness, and corrupt officials and politicians. The book was, among other things, a contribution to the Social Gospel movement. It even inspired Charles M. Sheldon’s bestselling novel, In His Steps (1896), with i…
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000: Essays in Honour of Stewart J. Brown
Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800 Analyses the complex movements known as ‘social Christianity’, ‘Christian socialism’, the ‘social gospel’, and ‘social reform’ in which Christians in Scotland and elsewhere struggled to revive and reinterpret the idea of the Kingdom of God Situates historical developments in Scottish religious life in their transnational and interna…
British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century
Since 1980 there has been an open discussion on the hostility that anthropologists typically have for missionaries. A consensus in this conversation has been that anthropologists dislike missionaries because they are engaged in cultural imperialism. This article, however, explores another hidden factor: the professionalization aspirations of those self-identifying with anthropology as a discipline which created a strong desire to eliminate missio…
Book forum on Joel Robbins’ Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas
Christmas is an unrivalled annual celebration. This volume traces its history from the early Church’s decision to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on 25 December through the medieval period and all the way into the twenty-first century. It explores Christmas around the world, including in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as Europe and North America. It also presents the variety of ways that worshipping communities observe the festival …
Oxford Handbook of Christmas
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural. The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from across numerous disciplines, including literary scholars, theologians, historians, biblical scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal experts. The volume…
Latin America and the Caribbean
This chapter presents the process of the Christian theological inculturation of Christmas in Latin America and the Caribbean: the celebration of the birth of Christ—of God Incarnate. To this end, selected Catholic Christmas celebrations are examined, including the liturgy of the Mass and extra-liturgical observances such as dance, that manifest the influence of three distinct cultural traditions: European—principally Spanish and Portuguese—as wel…
The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology
This chapter argues that classic Christian theological anthropology has emphasized that all human beings are part of the one human family descending from Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, yet fallen and sinful. These beliefs have been traditionally expounded with reference to Genesis 1–3. Sociocultural anthropologists, in contrast, have often prided themselves on shedding Christian beliefs. The Genesis narrative, in particular, has been …
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast A…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century
Anthropos , Seite 593 - 601
Victor Turner and Edith Turner
Victor Turner (1920–1983) and his wife Edith Turner (1921– ) did fieldwork together among the Ndembu of what was then Northern Rhodesia. Victor was awarded a PhD from the University of Manchester and became a leading figure in the Manchester School, with its emphasis on extended cases studies and process. Agnostics and Communists as young adults, the Turners found faith and were received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1958. Soon after, they mo…
Afterword
The afterword somewhat playfully offers a view of this study as a ring composition in which the chapter on Evans-Pritchard serves as the centre. It pulls together some of the recurring and enduring themes that have been uncovered, including wrestling with rationalism, reductionism, and scepticism. It observes the surprising persistence of theology as a conversation partner for anthropologists. One expression of this is the role of the Gifford lec…
Robert Beaken. Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis
In Cosmo Lang, Robert Beaken argues convincingly that the archbishopric of Canterbury was an influential position in English society in the 1930s and beyond, and that Lang acquitted himself well when he served God and country in this office (1928–1942). Secularization narratives have led to assumptions that ecclesiastical leaders were largely irrelevant in twentieth-century Britain. Contrariwise, Beaken demonstrates just how extensively Lang was …
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
Throughout its entire history the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as having a bias against Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had discredited religious beliefs. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as …
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened a…
E.B. Tylor, religion and anthropology
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) is often considered the father of the discipline of anthropology. Despite such eminence, his biography has never been written and the connections between his life and his work have been largely obscured or ignored. This article presents Tylor's main theories in the field of anthropology, especially as presented in his four published books, the most famous of which is Primitive Culture , and in the manuscript sourc…
Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient, buried Assyrian cities, including the capital, Nineveh, and dragged sizeable bits of them back to the British Museum. His book, Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), was a Victorian sensation. This article explores some aspects of Layard's book and discoveries that captured the Victorian imagination. Many were fascinated with Assyrian remains as they relate…
Church, Chapel and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth‐Century England – By Richard D. Floyd
A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in Nineteenth-Century England
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England
This is a model monograph. Bruce Hindmarsh has landed upon an important yet surprisingly understudied theme, researched it thoroughly, and explored it in a wide-ranging and insightful manner. David Bebbington, in the standard definition of evangelicalism, identified conversionism as one of its four distinguishing marks. This first book-length treatment of this evangelical raison d'être is therefore a significant contribution to religious history.…
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
Throughout its entire history the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as having a bias against Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had discredited religious beliefs. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as …
E.B. Tylor, religion and anthropology
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) is often considered the father of the discipline of anthropology. Despite such eminence, his biography has never been written and the connections between his life and his work have been largely obscured or ignored. This article presents Tylor's main theories in the field of anthropology, especially as presented in his four published books, the most famous of which is Primitive Culture , and in the manuscript sourc…
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England
This is a model monograph. Bruce Hindmarsh has landed upon an important yet surprisingly understudied theme, researched it thoroughly, and explored it in a wide-ranging and insightful manner. David Bebbington, in the standard definition of evangelicalism, identified conversionism as one of its four distinguishing marks. This first book-length treatment of this evangelical raison d'être is therefore a significant contribution to religious history.…
Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient, buried Assyrian cities, including the capital, Nineveh, and dragged sizeable bits of them back to the British Museum. His book, Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), was a Victorian sensation. This article explores some aspects of Layard's book and discoveries that captured the Victorian imagination. Many were fascinated with Assyrian remains as they relate…
Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain
Journal Article Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain Get access Timothy Larsen Timothy Larsen 1Tyndale Seminary, Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 2, January 2000, Pages 239–259, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.2.239 Published: 01 January 2000
Victorian Nonconformity and the memory of the ejected ministers: The impact of the bicentennial commemorations of 1862
In the providence of God, St Bartholomew’s Day, 1862, fell on a Sunday, just as it had two hundred years before. On that earlier Sabbath, some 2,000 ministers were ejected from their livings because they could not conscientiously swear their ‘unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed’ in the new Prayer Book, or meet some of the other requirements of the new Act of Uniformity. Rejected by the Established Church, m…
How Many Sisters Make a Brotherhood?’ A Case Study in Gender and Ecclesiology in Early Nineteenth-Century English Dissent
The Mill Yard Seventh Day Baptist Church, founded in the seventeenth century, had by the 1820s dwindled to a group of just seven women without a minister. One of their seventeenth-century forebears, Joseph Davis, a wealthy linen draper, had established a charitable trust for the purpose of perpetually supporting the cause of Seventh Day Baptists. He had entrusted to it the Mill Yard property in London – which gave the congregation its name – and …
Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain
Journal Article Thomas Cooper and Christian Apologetics in Victorian Britain Get access Timothy Larsen Timothy Larsen 1Tyndale Seminary, Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 2, January 2000, Pages 239–259, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.2.239 Published: 01 January 2000
Thomas Cook, Holy Land Pilgrims, and the Dawn of the Modern Tourist Industry
During a visit to Palestine in 1853, A P. Stanley, then canon of Canterbury, sent missives to friends as he went along, describing his reactions to the Holy Land. Goldwin Smith, a fellow at University College Oxford, enthused, ‘You have nothing to do but to piece together your letters, cut off their heads and tails, and the book is done.’ Sinai and Palestine (1856) became his most popular work. When the Prince of Wales decided to visit Palestine …
The Regaining of Faith: Reconversions among Popular Radicals in Mid-Victorian England
There is a wealth of literature on Victorian religious doubt, and much of it is structured by implicitly defining pure faith in the context of nineteenth-century England as an organized, traditional, orthodox, trinitarian, and supernatural version of Christianity and then herding together people who deviate from this ideal at various points into vague categories such as "unbelief," "infidelity," "irreligion," "honest doubt," or "freethought." Mem…
Pulling the Devil's Kingdom down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain . Pamela J. Walker
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
Church, Chapel and Party: Religious Dissent and Political Modernization in Nineteenth‐Century England – By Richard D. Floyd
A Nonconformist Conscience? Free Churchmen in Parliament in Nineteenth-Century England
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England
This is a model monograph. Bruce Hindmarsh has landed upon an important yet surprisingly understudied theme, researched it thoroughly, and explored it in a wide-ranging and insightful manner. David Bebbington, in the standard definition of evangelicalism, identified conversionism as one of its four distinguishing marks. This first book-length treatment of this evangelical raison d'être is therefore a significant contribution to religious history.…
Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh: The Bible and Archaeology in Victorian Britain
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient, buried Assyrian cities, including the capital, Nineveh, and dragged sizeable bits of them back to the British Museum. His book, Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), was a Victorian sensation. This article explores some aspects of Layard's book and discoveries that captured the Victorian imagination. Many were fascinated with Assyrian remains as they relate…
E.B. Tylor, religion and anthropology
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) is often considered the father of the discipline of anthropology. Despite such eminence, his biography has never been written and the connections between his life and his work have been largely obscured or ignored. This article presents Tylor's main theories in the field of anthropology, especially as presented in his four published books, the most famous of which is Primitive Culture , and in the manuscript sourc…
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened a…
Victor Turner and Edith Turner
Victor Turner (1920–1983) and his wife Edith Turner (1921– ) did fieldwork together among the Ndembu of what was then Northern Rhodesia. Victor was awarded a PhD from the University of Manchester and became a leading figure in the Manchester School, with its emphasis on extended cases studies and process. Agnostics and Communists as young adults, the Turners found faith and were received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1958. Soon after, they mo…
Afterword
The afterword somewhat playfully offers a view of this study as a ring composition in which the chapter on Evans-Pritchard serves as the centre. It pulls together some of the recurring and enduring themes that have been uncovered, including wrestling with rationalism, reductionism, and scepticism. It observes the surprising persistence of theology as a conversation partner for anthropologists. One expression of this is the role of the Gifford lec…
Robert Beaken. Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis
In Cosmo Lang, Robert Beaken argues convincingly that the archbishopric of Canterbury was an influential position in English society in the 1930s and beyond, and that Lang acquitted himself well when he served God and country in this office (1928–1942). Secularization narratives have led to assumptions that ecclesiastical leaders were largely irrelevant in twentieth-century Britain. Contrariwise, Beaken demonstrates just how extensively Lang was …
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
Throughout its entire history the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as having a bias against Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had discredited religious beliefs. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as …
Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith
British Social Anthropologists and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century
Anthropos , Seite 593 - 601
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast A…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Unitarians and Presbyterians: The Nineteenth Century
Methodism was originally a loosely connected network of religious clubs, each devoted to promoting holy living among its members. It was part of the Evangelical Revival, a movement of religious ideas which swept across the North Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the growth and development, character and nature, and consolidation and decline of British Methodism in the nineteenth century from five distinct perspectives.…
The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology
This chapter argues that classic Christian theological anthropology has emphasized that all human beings are part of the one human family descending from Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, yet fallen and sinful. These beliefs have been traditionally expounded with reference to Genesis 1–3. Sociocultural anthropologists, in contrast, have often prided themselves on shedding Christian beliefs. The Genesis narrative, in particular, has been …
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas
Christmas is an unrivalled annual celebration. This volume traces its history from the early Church’s decision to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on 25 December through the medieval period and all the way into the twenty-first century. It explores Christmas around the world, including in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as Europe and North America. It also presents the variety of ways that worshipping communities observe the festival …
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