Dan Inman, The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014). ISBN: 9781451469264

This chapter reviews the book The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (2014). by Dan Inman. The book offers an account of a fascinating and little known episode in the history of the University of Oxford. It examines the history of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In particular, it revisits the various attempts to tinker with theology at Oxford during this period and considers the fierce resistance of conservatives. Inman argues that Oxford’s idiosyncratic development deserves to be taken more seriously than it often has been, at least by historians of theology.

The History of the University of Oxford. Volume VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 1

Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies ◽

10.2307/4052778 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 318

Author(s):

Donald J. Withrington ◽

M. G. Brock ◽

M. C. Curthoys

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

The History of the University of Oxford Volume VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 1, ed. by M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys,

The Catholic Historical Review ◽

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2000 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 345-346

Author(s):

J. P. Ellens

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, eds. The History of the University of Oxford. Volume VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xxxvii, 806. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-951016-4.

Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies ◽

10.1017/s0095139000063067 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 318-320

Author(s):

Donald J. Withrington

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Oxford University ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Oxford University Press

M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, eds. The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part Two. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. lv, 993. £75.00. ISBN 0-19-951017-2.

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10.2307/4053494 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 152-153

Author(s):

Sheldon Rothblatt

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Oxford University ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Oxford University Press

The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2

The English Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ehr/117.470.134 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 117 (470) ◽

pp. 134-136

Author(s):

R. D. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

M.G. Brock and M.C. Curthoys, eds. The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII. Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. 993 pp. Cloth $135.00.

History of Education Quarterly ◽

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2004 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 306-311

Author(s):

John R. Thelin ◽

Galina Valyayeva

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

History Of ◽

University History and the History of Universities in the Nineteenth Century - The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. 6: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, pt. 1. Edited by M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. 844. $145.00. - Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education since 1850. By Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 392. $74.00. - A History of the University of Cambridge. Vol. 3: 1750–1870. By Peter Searby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 600. $125.00. - Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English Elite. By Reba Soffer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 310. $45.00. - Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830–1960. By Christopher Stray. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 366. $85.00.

Journal of British Studies ◽

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2000 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 247-262

Author(s):

William C. Lubenow

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Adult Education ◽

Cambridge University ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

University Of Cambridge ◽

University History ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Universities ◽

Reform and Revisionism in the Study of Henrician England - Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham. By Barbara J. Harris. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 334. $37.50. - The Power of the Tudor Nobility. By G. W. Bernard. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985. Pp. 228. - Rome ou l'Angleterre? Les reactions politiques des Catholiques Anglais au moment du schisme. By Jean-Pierre Moreau. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984. Pp. 377. - Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII. By Maria Dowling. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 283. $43.00. - Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics, and Reform, 1500–1550. Edited by Alistair Fox and John Guy. Oxford: Basil Black well, 1986. Pp. vi + 242. - The History of the University of Oxford, vol. 3: The Collegiate University. Edited by James McConica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. $125.00. - Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration. Edited by Christopher Coleman and David Starkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 219. - Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia. By Lacey Baldwin Smith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 342. $25.00. - Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. By Margaret King. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxi + 524.

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1988 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 190-197

Author(s):

Thomas F. Mayer

Keyword(s):

Henry Viii ◽

Stanford University ◽

Tudor England ◽

Oxford University ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

Princeton University ◽

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The University ◽

Oxford University Press

Book review. The History of the University of Oxford. Vol IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford. N Tyacke [ed]

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10.1093/ehr/114.459.1273 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 114 (459) ◽

pp. 1273-1275

Author(s):

D. Smith

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

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The Ta'līf akhbār al-qurūn min umarā' bilad Ilūrin: A Critique

History in Africa ◽

10.2307/3171627 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 57-67

Author(s):

H.O. Danmole

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Northern Nigeria ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Unpublished Work ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

University Of Ibadan ◽

Local Languages

Before the advent of colonialism, Arabic was widely used in northern Nigeria where Islam had penetrated before the fifteenth century. The jihād of the early nineteenth century in Hausaland led to the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate, the revitalization of Islamic learning, and scholars who kept records in Arabic. Indeed, some local languages such as Hausa and Fulfulde were reduced to writing in Arabic scripts. Consequently, knowledge of Arabic is a crucial tool for the historian working on the history of the caliphate.For Ilorin, a frontier emirate between Hausa and Yorubaland, a few Arabic materials are available as well for the reconstruction of the history of the emirate. One such document is the Ta'līf akhbār al-qurūn min umarā' bilad Ilūrin (“The History of the Emirs of Ilorin”). In 1965 Martin translated, edited, and published the Ta'līf in the Research Bulletin of the Centre for Arabic Documentation at the University of Ibadan as a “New Arabic History of Ilorin.” Since then many scholars have used the Ta'līf in their studies of Ilorin and Yoruba history. Recently Smith has affirmed that the Ta'līf has been relatively neglected. He attempts successfully to reconstruct the chronology of events in Yorubaland, using the Ta'līf along with the Ta'nis al-ahibba' fi dhikr unara' Gwandu mawa al-asfiya', an unpublished work of Dr. Junaid al-Bukhari, Wazīr of Sokoto, and works in English. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the information in the Ta'līf by comparing its evidence with that of other primary sources which deal with the history of Ilorin and Yorubaland.