W. G. Ward and Liberal Catholicism

1972 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-344
Author(s):  
K. Theodore Hoppen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Liberal Position

Victorian religious thinkers were peculiarly concerned with the problem of discovering the origins of religious knowledge and with analysing the correct relationship between that knowledge and contemporary scientific and philosophical developments. Among others, the small group of mid-nineteenth century English Roman Catholics was much given to discussion on the matter. Apart from Acton, the outstanding men concerned—Newman, Manning, Richard Simpson, and William George Ward—were converts from Anglicanism. Considerable attention has been devoted to those who, as Roman Catholics, adopted what is generally (if inaccurately) labelled a ‘liberal’ position.

A Phase of the Struggle for Catholic Education: Manchester and Salford in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Savio Hamer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Catholic Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
National System ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Educational Debate ◽  
Historical Journal ◽  
Roman Catholics

Writing in theCambridge Historical Journalin 1956, G.F.A. Best introduced his article on the religious difficulties of national education in England from 1800 to 1870 with the comment ‘the peculiar problems and difficulties in the way of achieving a national system of elementary education in nineteenth-century England [had] long been so obvious and notorious that a new attempt at an objective and comprehensive view must seem surprising and rash.’ He then justified his own article on the grounds that none of the works available did the subject justice because none told the whole story. In giving only fleeting mention to the educational claims of Roman Catholics, however, even Best omitted an essential of the great educational debate that was waged over England for much of the nineteenth century and that in its earlier phases found some of its more powerful voices in Manchester.

scholarly journals Manning's Ultramontanism and the Catholic Church in British Politics

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P. von Arx
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Church History ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Papal States ◽  
Italian Unification ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
The Church

After his conversion to Roman Catholicism, the first major controversy in which Henry Edward Manning found himself involved as a member of his new church concerned the Roman Question, or the Temporal Power; that is, the political status and future of the Papal States. Now the question of the temporal power of the pope, and the amount of controversy it engendered, is one of those issues in nineteenth century church history whose significance it is difficult for us to understand. By the mid-nineteenth century, especially in relation to the movement for Italian unification, the temporal power of the popes looks to us like an historical anachronism. To Roman Catholics today, it is obvious that the ability of the church to preach the gospel has been enhanced and its mission in the world correspondingly facilitated by being disembarrassed of the burden of political control in central Italy. How to explain, then, the tremendous controversy the Roman Question aroused over so long a period in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the conviction, especially of the papacy's defenders, that the preservation of the Papal States was critical for the survival, not only of religion, but, as we shall see, of civilization in the West?

THE FIRST EVANGELICAL TRACT SOCIETY

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABEL RIVERS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
The Poor

The study of how popular religious publishing operated in Britain in the eighteenth century has been neglected. Recent work on such publishing in the nineteenth century ignores the important eighteenth-century tract distribution societies that were the predecessors of the much larger nineteenth-century ones. This article provides a detailed account of the work of a society that is now little known, despite the wealth of surviving evidence: the Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, founded in 1750, which should properly be considered the first of the evangelical tract societies. It was founded by dissenters, but included many Anglicans among its members; its object was to promote experimental religion by distributing Bibles and cheap tracts to the poor. Its surviving records provide unusually detailed evidence of the choice, numbers, distribution, and reception of these books. Analysis of this particular Society throws light more generally on non-commercial popular publishing, the reading experiences of the poor, and the development of evangelical religion in the eighteenth century.

Islam without Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad S. Dallal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Ganges

Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal’s pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century--prior to systematic European encounters--was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought. Across vast Islamic territories, Dallal charts in rich detail not only how intellectuals rethought and reorganized religious knowledge but also the reception and impact of their ideas. From the banks of the Ganges to the shores of the Atlantic, commoners and elites alike embraced the appeals of Muslim thinkers who, while preserving classical styles of learning, advocated for general participation by Muslims in the definition of Islam. Dallal also uncovers the regional origins of most reform projects, showing how ideologies were forged in particular sociopolitical contexts. Reformists’ ventures were in large part successful--up until the beginnings of European colonization of the Muslim world. By the nineteenth century, the encounter with Europe changed Islamic discursive culture in significant ways into one that was largely articulated in reaction to the radical challenges of colonialism.

scholarly journals Images of the Toronto Provincial Asylum, 1846-1890

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-50
Author(s):  
Nathan Flis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
High Cure ◽  
Main Building ◽  
Early Century ◽  
Cure Rates

Abstract Built in 1850, the Toronto Provincial Asylum was once the largest mental hospitals in Canada. The main building was demolished in 1975, and the property is now home to the Queen Street branch of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Although there are remnants of the nineteenth-century institution, including most of the perimeter wall, the only lasting visual reminder of the property as a whole is a small group of images. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, perhaps in order to ease public concern over the increasingly custodial function of the institution, Victorian media sources repeatedly presented an unchanging or immutable depiction of the Toronto Asylum. Drawing upon the architectural concept drawings of the 1840s, which contained an ideal vision for the building, pictures from the 1870s, 80s and 90s depict the asylum as the new, clean, and proud-looking structure it was when it opened. Arguably, these images are what the Victorian public wanted to see: they preserved the early-century optimism that such institutions would yield high cure rates and they supported the view that the care of the mentally ill belonged in the hands of the medical profession.

Women’s High-Wheel Bicycle Racing in Nineteenth-Century America: More than Salacious Entertainment

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-158
Author(s):  
M. Ann Hall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
The United States ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Bicycle Racing ◽  
Working Class Women

During the nineteenth century in North America, a small group of working-class women turned to sport to earn a living. Among them were circus performers, race walkers, wrestlers, boxers, shooters, swimmers, baseball players, and bicycle racers. Through their athleticism, these women contested and challenged the prevailing gender norms, and at the same time expanded notions about Victorian women’s capabilities and appropriate work. This article focuses on one of these professional sports, namely high-wheel bicycle racing. Bicycle historians have mostly dismissed women’s racing during the brief high-wheel era of the 1880s as little more than sensational entertainment, and have not fully understood its importance. I hope to change these perceptions by providing evidence that female high-wheel racers in the United States, who often began as pedestriennes (race walkers), were superb athletes competing in an exciting, well-attended, and profitable sport.

Manchester

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nevell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
Type Site ◽  
Spinning Mill

This chapter provides an overview of one of the most significant nineteenth-century industrial cities: Manchester. It reviews the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century background to the emergence of the nineteenth-century industrial city: weak local lordship and the concentration of commercial power in a small group of entrepreneurial textile families. What emerged was a template for the industrial city: an urban-based textile manufacturing centre with dedicated workers’ housing serviced by a detailed and efficient transport network. This model would be copied by cities in Europe and North America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The outline of the nineteenth-century industrial city is described through its archaeology, in the form of standing structures and excavated evidence. This includes the canal and railway infrastructure, the excavation of workers’ housing and the recording of surviving workshop dwellings, and the survey and excavation of Manchester’s most important manufacturing type-site: the steam-powered cotton spinning mill.

Shoring Up Partisan Control: The Speakership Elections of 1839 and 1847

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery A. Jenkins ◽  
Charles Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
National Party ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Antebellum Period

This chapter examines the speakership elections of 1839 and 1847, each of which highlighted the conflicting impulses of party and region at a time when national party leaders were striving for greater organization over House affairs. It explores the dynamics of roll call votes once the House began electing Speakers and other officers through viva voce voting, first in the 26th Congress (1839–1841), when the officer choices were dictated by a small group of nominal Democrats led by John C. Calhoun, and then in the succeeding four Congresses. The chapter also considers whether the coalition that elected Speakers in the early nineteenth century could look like a governing coalition, or even a procedural cartel. It shows that controlling the speakership was no guarantee of controlling the floor for the remainder of the antebellum period.

scholarly journals CONSTRUCTING AVATIME: QUESTIONS OF HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN A WEST AFRICAN POLITY,c. 1690s TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNNE BRYDON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Small Group ◽  
West African ◽  
Small Scale

ABSTRACTSmall-scale societies, like Avatime in eastern Ghana, established, maintained and developed themselves in a range of ways, in spaces between large, centralized states, in West Africa in the precolonial era. This essay demonstrates the inclusivity and initiative (in terms of both economic entrepreneurship andbricolage) of this small group before its effective destruction by Asante in about 1870, and looks at the ways in which Avatime was reconstructed in the last third of the nineteenth century. In addition, issues of ethnicity and identity are broadly addressed, comparing Avatime's inclusivity with tropes of difference discussed in recent studies of small-scale societies in this journal.

Re-Visioning the Past and Re-Sourcing the Future: The Unresolved Historiographical Struggle in Roman Catholic Scholarship and Authoritative Teaching

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 389-416
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Unresolved Problem ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Catholic Theological

During twenty years of teaching at a Jesuit university in an ecumenical Ph.D. programme focused on historical theology, I have observed a profound unresolved problem in Roman Catholic theological scholarship. Framed very simply, it is this: since the rise of historical consciousness among Roman Catholics during the nineteenth century, conflicting historiographical assumptions about the Christian past have led to tensions and divisions among Roman Catholic scholars and church authorities. My purpose here is to diagnose this unresolved challenge and propose a mode of analysis for intra-ecclesial dialogue.

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