This book focuses on the Jesus of the popular Christian culture shared by not only church-, kirk-, and chapel-goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship from the 1850s through the 1950s, . It is ideal for scholars of British Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Meredith Veldman is a professor of history at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, where she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish history, as well as twentieth-century Europe. Her recent publications include Margaret Thatcher: Shaping the New Conservatism (2016).

Introduction: Jesus in Britain, 1850-1970 1. The Victorian Jesus and the German Challenge 2. Decades of Crisis and Opportunity: Jesus in the 1860s 3. Jesus in the Fifth Gospel 4. Visualizing Jesus: Artistic and Religious Controversies 5. William Holman Hunt's Quest for a Protestant Jesus 6. The Spectacular Jesus 7. Jesus and British Scholarship Before World War I 8. The Apocalyptic Jesus in Britain 9. The Children's Jesus 10. Jesus on the BBC Postscript: Continuities: Jesus in the 1970s