In a rich survey encompassing music, art, literature, and architecture, Professor Davies studies the revolution in religious thought and worship in England during the Victorian era. One main trend, the return to conservatism, is revealed in the renascence of Roman Catholic worship, the Oxford Movement, and the search for traditional architecture and liturgy. This impetus was balanced by the drive toward innovation, through the Social Gospel, the Church's confrontation with science, and the new forms of worship sought by the Baptists, Congregationalists, and others. This is the fourth in a five-volume series.
Originally published in 1962.
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Horton Marlais Davies, formerly Professor at Princeton University, was a minister in Wallingford, London during the Blitz in World War II; he then founded the department of religion at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, around the time of apartheid; finally he came to America at the time of the Human Rights protests. He is the author of thirty-six books, including, Worship and Theology in England; Varieties of English Preaching, 1900-1960; The English Metaphysical Preachers, 1588-1645; and the co-authored French Huguenots in English Speaking Lands. His first book of sermons appeared under the title Believing.