* PART I: 'THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH': THE CRISIS OF
DISSENT
* 1: 'The God of the hills': The impact of Romanticism
* 2: 'Destructive of the authority of divine revelation': Genesis,
geology, and evolution
* 3: 'The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its
stand': higher criticism and the Unitarians
* 4: 'An inspired communication from the Deity ... Or ... Nothing': the
dilemma of Evangelical Dissenters
* 5: 'The seal and servant of Christianity': the Spiritualist
alternative
* 6: 'An easy good - natured God': the collapse of Calvinism
* 7: 'The hateful mystery': the eclipse of eternal punishment
* 8: 'The sceptical tendencies of modern times': the isolation of
Spurgeon
* 9: 'The heresies of the Baptist Union': the Down Grade
* 10: 'A conspiracy to undermine our holy faith': the liberal triumph
* PART II: 'THE HUB AND FOUNT OF SOCIAL LIFE': THE LIBERALIZATION OF
DISSENT
* 11: Church membership and chapel attendance: the consequences of the
crisis
* 12: 'Conversion is not necessary to regeneration': the failure of
recruitment
* 13: Nonconformity's shrinking constituency: the evidence of the
dissenting registers
* 14: 'Influential families lost to conformity': the flight of the
bourgeoisie
* 15: The failure of success: the loss of the poor
* 16: The 'most spiritually destitute and degraded': missions to the
poor
* 17: 'Diversity of opinion no bar to Christian communion': the
relaxation of discipline
* 18: 'We must not leave Satan to provide the "recreations of life"':
the problem of pleasure
* 19: The 'social and intellectual well-being of our members': the
institutional church
* 20: 'A liberal education': culture without anarchy
* 21: 'Winning souls' or 'unlimited speculation'?: colleges and
universities
* 22: Frugality and over work: pastors and preachers
* 23: 'The future rests with the Free Churches': free church union and
the Welsh revival
* PART III: 'WHAT IS MORALLY WRONG CAN NEVER BE POLITICALLY RIGHT': THE
CONSCIENCE OF DISSENT
* 24: 'The largest and widest church ever established': the influence
of George Dawson
* 25: 'Once bit, twice shy': the Forster Education Act
* 26: 'A torrent of gin and beer': the Nonconformist revolt and liberal
defeat
* 27: 'The right of the people to judge for themselves': Bulgaria and
Ireland
* 28: 'A Mutual Benefit Association': trade unionists and employers
* 29: Making 'men moral by act of parliament': personal redemption
versus environmental reformation
* 30: 'To reconstruct the existing organization of society': from
philanthropy to christian socialism and the new liberalism
* 31: 'A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God':
imperialism and the missionary conscience
* 32: 'The thunder of British guns': Armenia and the Boer War
* 33: 'The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell': the Balfour
Education Act and the liberal landslide
* Index
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