David - Kingsley, Charles
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A timely reawakening of a violin-stringed conscience for today's readers. David: Five Sermons reintroduces Charles Kingsley's piercing Victorian sermon voice with clarity, warmth, and moral force. This complete sermons collection distills a century of religious reflection into accessible, thought-provoking chapters. Across its pages, the preacher's art moves from bold christian morality discourse to intimate explorations of faith and doubt, threaded through education and piety themes that speak to both clergy and lay readers. Set in Victorian England, the work resonates with the cadence of…mehr

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A timely reawakening of a violin-stringed conscience for today's readers. David: Five Sermons reintroduces Charles Kingsley's piercing Victorian sermon voice with clarity, warmth, and moral force. This complete sermons collection distills a century of religious reflection into accessible, thought-provoking chapters. Across its pages, the preacher's art moves from bold christian morality discourse to intimate explorations of faith and doubt, threaded through education and piety themes that speak to both clergy and lay readers. Set in Victorian England, the work resonates with the cadence of Anglican clerical rhetoric while remaining a public domain classic religious text that still asks modern questions about how belief shapes daily life. It is at once a victorian sermon collection and a religious essay collection, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike to inhabit a past that still informs today's conversations about duty, hope, and integrity. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations, this is more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For england 19th century readers seeking authentic literary history, and for those drawn to the enduring drama of faith, reason, and society, David: Five Sermons offers a lucid, patient doorway into a pivotal era and its enduring questions.
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Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university lecturer, a social reformer, a historian, a novelist, and a poet. He lived from 12 June 1819 to 23 January 1875. He is known for his involvement in Christian socialism, the working men's college, and the establishment of labor cooperatives, which were unsuccessful but inspired later labor reforms. He was Charles Darwin's friend and correspondent. The eldest child of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife, Mary Lucas Kingsley, Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon. Both his sister Charlotte Chanter (1828-1882) and brother Henry Kingsley (1830-1876) were writers. He was the uncle of the explorer and scientist Mary Kingsley and the father of the novelist Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852-1931). (1862-1900). The early years of Charles Kingsley were spent in Barnack, Northamptonshire, and Clovelly, Devon, where his father served as Curate from 1826 to 1832 and Rector from 1832 to 1836. Before attending King's College London and the University of Cambridge, he received his education at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School. Charles enrolled in Cambridge's Magdalene College in 1838 and earned his degree there in 1842.