On the Friendship of Books

Maurice, Frederick Denison; Hughes, Thomas

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“…they are also found to testify, and that not weakly or obscurely, of man as a spiritual being'. 39 What was needed was an approach which took into account 'the living, germinating power of words'. 40 Close analysis of the word 'right' uncovered a hierarchy of verbal meaning, in which there is an implicit ordering of the world, enabling ascent from lower to higher ontological levels.…”

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“…44 Returning late in life to this typically Platonic theme of illumination and ascent, Maurice said language could not be 'acquired', like a lifeless object; but, studying it, '[a] light flashes out of a word sometimes which frightens one'. 45 Ordinary language was sanctified by repeated use: common words were 'truly sacred'. 46 Maurice's reading of Scripture in a spirit of devotional if critical awareness tended to reinforce the integrity of its books.…”

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The Text as Sacrament: Victorian Broad Church Philology

Morris

2002

Stud. Church Hist.

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The description ‘Broad Church’ popularized by W.J. Conybeare in his famous article on ‘Church Parties’ in 1853, whilst claiming as distinctive the watchwords ‘Charity and Toleration’ and ‘the desire of comprehension’, made no specific reference to philology. Yet philology was not a minor fad for the Broad Church. Though its connections with theology are not obvious today, it provided a vital tool for those theologians who were seeking to defend the authority and integrity of the Bible in a context in which, as they saw it, the emergence of critical historical and scientific approaches to the natural world had the potential to undermine the sacred canon, and to relegate it to a position of relative importance only in the human story of religion. Their study of philology therefore merits renewed attention by historians, as a contribution to the reception of the Bible as book in the Victorian Church.

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