Overview
- Sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, touching on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history
- Gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, the study of whose early history has grown over the last twenty years
- Uses an exploration of Tregelles' career to illuminate neglected aspects of Victorian religious life
Part of the book series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (CTAW)
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This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history. Several recent scholars have celebrated the 200th anniversary of the German textual critic Tischendorf but Tregelles, his contemporary English rival, has been neglected, despite his achievements being comparable. In addition to his decisive contribution to Biblical textual scholarship, this study of Tregelles’ career sheds light on developments among Quakers in the period, and Tregelles’s enthusiastic involvement with the early nineteenth-century Welsh literary renaissance usefully supplements recent studies on Iolo Morganwg. The early career of Tregelles also gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, (in both England and Italy) the study of whose early history has become more extensive over the last twenty years. The whole of Tregelles’s career therefore illuminates neglected aspectsof Victorian religious life.
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Reviews
“Ultimately this is more a biography than a full-blown study of Tregelles’s thought: Stunt is interested more in the broad sweep than the technical minutiae of his subject’s work. …he does explain its dimensions in ways that will be useful to non-expert readers. What he has done is to lay out the life of a man fairly prominent in his own day whose life and labors have been occluded … . In that sense, Stunt has succeeded.” (Gareth Atkins, Church History, Vol. 93 (1), March, 2024)
“This neat, compact, enthusiastic biography surveys the life and work of Cornish auto-didact and pioneering biblical scholar Samuel Prideaux Tregelles … . This work should appeal to specialists in the field of nineteenth-century biblical scholarship.” (R. J. W. Mills, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72 (1), January, 2021)
“Stunt’s book will be welcome to any reader with an interest in the history of the Plymouth Brethren or New Testament textual criticism as well as the Risorgimento, and certainly belongs in the libraries of universities, theology departments and seminaries. … Stunt ‘the last of the gentlemen scholars’, a characterisation much in evidence in this book which illuminates the life and work of one of the nineteenth-century’s pivotal scholars who deserves a far greater renown than historians generally accord him.” (T J Marinello, European Journal of Theology, Vol. 30 (1), 2021)
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Timothy C. F. Stunt is an independent scholar, whose study of radical evangelicals in From Awakening to Secession (2000) was the basis for his PhD awarded by Cambridge University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
Book Subtitle: A Forgotten Scholar
Authors: Timothy C. F. Stunt
Series Title: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32266-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32265-6Published: 04 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32268-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32266-3Published: 03 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5838
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Religion, Social History, Cultural History, Intellectual Studies