Perhaps the most eminent of eminent Victorians, a master alike of parliamentary debate and public oratory and regarded as the greatest Christian statesman of his day, William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) governed Britain at a time when the country stood at the apex of world affairs. In this book historian David Bebbington presents a superb, balanced portrait of Gladstone-his character, his convictions, his actions, and his legacy.
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Bebbington (history, Univ. of Stirling, Scotland) rehearses the main events in Gladstone's political career, with occasional forays into his private life and frequent, but often unsatisfying, references to his religious convictions. Instead of entering the ministry, Gladstone (1809-98) went into politics and became prime minister four times during the reign of Queen Victoria. This title, part of Eerdmans's "Library of Religious Biography" series, does not pretend to be a full-dress biography. There are no footnotes or endnotes, and the book proceeds at a breakneck pace in order to cover more than 60 eventful years of public service in fewer than 300 pages. Such constraints result in a desultory analysis of Gladstone's faith and theology. While useful as a concise narrative of his public life, the book does not go very far in advancing our understanding of Christianity as the generative center of his thought and actions.
- Steve Gowler, Wofford Coll. Lib., Spartanburg, S.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Steve Gowler, Wofford Coll. Lib., Spartanburg, S.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Prime Minister, Home Rule, House of Commons, House of Lords, Foreign Secretary, John Gladstone, Reform Act, Church of Ireland, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Queen Victoria, Corn Laws, Eastern Question, Lord Granville, United Kingdom, Christ Church, Crimean War, Sir Robert Peel, Colonial Secretary, High Churchmen, Lord Aberdeen, Oxford Movement, United States, Broad Church New!
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Prime Minister, Home Rule, House of Commons, House of Lords, Foreign Secretary, John Gladstone, Reform Act, Church of Ireland, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Queen Victoria, Corn Laws, Eastern Question, Lord Granville, United Kingdom, Christ Church, Crimean War, Sir Robert Peel, Colonial Secretary, High Churchmen, Lord Aberdeen, Oxford Movement, United States, Broad Church New!
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- The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics by David W. Bebbington on page 44, and Back Matter
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