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F. D. Maurice and the Contemporary Religious World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Torben Christensen*
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen

Extract

In 1838 Frederick Denison Maurice introduced himself to the English public through his great work, The Kingdom of Christ; or, Hints on the Principles, Ordinances, and Constitution of the Catholic Church. In this book he attempted to show that all men’s searchings, yearnings, and longings would be satisfied in the Church of England, by its ordinances, worship, and doctrinal standards. The Established Church represented the solution to all the enigmas of human existence.

In many ways The Kingdom of Christ was a difficult book to master. To all appearances there was an indistinctness in the argument and an obscurity of language. But it had the touch of originality. Above all, whether Maurice could be clearly understood or not, it was evident that he spoke with passion and authority, as a man entrusted with a message from God to the contemporary world. He was convinced that he had been given the task to call back to the truth the religious world, which had not grasped it.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1966

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Page 70 of note 1 Christian Socialism 1848-54, London 1920, 76.

Page 70 of note 2 The Victorian Transformation of Theology: Being the Second Series of Maurice Lectures Delivered at King’s College During the Lent Term, 1934, 1934, 35.

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