- Publisher:
- Anthem Press
- Online publication date:
- February 2022
- Print publication year:
- 2020
- Online ISBN:
- 9781785272400
- Subjects:
- Religion, Church History
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Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement presents Sara Coleridge’s religious writings to modern readers for the first time. It includes extracts from her important religious works which have remained unpublished since the 1840s. These writings present a forthright and eloquent challenge to the patriarchal hegemonies of Victorian religion and society. They represent a bold intervention by a woman writer in the public spheres of academia and the Church, in the genre of religious writing which was a masculine preserve (as opposed to the genres of religious fiction and poetry). The religious writings published by Sara Coleridge in the 1840s present the most original and systematic critique of the Tractarian theology developed by John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey, John Keble and their colleagues. Sara Coleridge advances against a theology which she regards as repressive, authoritarian and conceptually flawed, a radical Protestant religion of inward experience and reason, underpinned by a Kantian epistemology. The passages reveal Sara Coleridge’s concerns with the language of religious discourse, which drove her later developments in religious prose. This book also consists of passages selected from Sara Coleridge’s unpublished masterpiece ‘Dialogues on Regeneration’, written in the last two years of her life.
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