The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought 1795-1865 (Clarendon Paperbacks)

by Boyd Hilton (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1991

  $89.57

  An examination of the mentality of the first half of the 19th century, when catastrophes and personal misfortune were seen as dispensations of divine providence. In the 1850s and 1860s, however, a different attitude developed. at the centre of which was a new way of understanding the Atonement.