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Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion

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  1. Jeffrey W. Barbeau
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Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: “Revealed” Religion and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 1-9

  3. Christ, the Word: the Coleridgean Creed

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    Pages 11-26

  4. The Scriptures: The Mirror of Faith

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 27-45

  5. The Scriptures: The Interpretation of the Old Testament

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 47-76

  6. The Scriptures: The Interpretation of the New Testament

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 77-110

  7. The Church: Tradition as the Master-Key of Interpretation

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    Pages 111-126

  8. The Holy Spirit: Reason and the Divine Image

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 127-142

  9. The Preacher: Imagination and the Inspired Prophet

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 143-159

  10. Conclusion: The Reception of Coleridge’s Religious System

    • Jeffrey W. Barbeau
    Pages 161-169

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-234
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Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840). Coleridge's late system links four sources of divinity the Bible, the traditions of the church, the interior work of the Spirit, and the inspired preacher to Christ, the Word. In thousands of marginalia and private notebook entries, Coleridge challenges traditional views of the formation and inspiration of the Bible, clarifies the role of the church in biblical interpretation, and elucidates the relationship between the objective and subjective sources of revelation. In late writings that develop a robust system of religion, Coleridge conveys his commitment to biblical wisdom.

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"The scholarship is massive yet focused and the context is exhilarating. It shows Coleridge's influence throughout the nineteenth centuryas a philosopher, political thinker, and theologian in Great Britain,Germany, and America" - Marilyn Gaull, Editor of The Wordsworth Circle

"...Barbeau focuses on Coleridge's seminal and posthumously published Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit...offe[ing] much insight into the broad terrain of British Anglicanism, both in its political and ecclesiastical manifsetations." - Anglican Theological Review

About the author

JEFFREY W. BARBEAU is an associate professor of Theology at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA.

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