Bedford's Victorian Pilgrim: William Hale White in Context

White has been assimilated to the character of Mark Rutherford, the subject of another novel, which has been taken as an accurate transcription of White's experience; and he has been treated as an instance of the shift of many Victorian authors from Christian orthodoxy into honest doubt. New Co...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 17; p. 156
Main Author Bebbington, D W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2013
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English literature
MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
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Summary:White has been assimilated to the character of Mark Rutherford, the subject of another novel, which has been taken as an accurate transcription of White's experience; and he has been treated as an instance of the shift of many Victorian authors from Christian orthodoxy into honest doubt. New College was a fresh foundation, the result of a merger between smaller colleges in 1850, and so it was crucial, if its image was not to become tarnished in the eyes of heresy-hunters, for its adherence to the Bible to be resolute. Like most members of Bunyan Meeting, a joint Congregational/Baptist Church loyal to Bunyan's insistence that water baptism is no bar to communion, he would have been baptised as an infant.
ISSN:0954-0970