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The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

A Forgotten Scholar

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  1. Timothy C. F. Stunt

    1. Naples, USA

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  • Sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, touching on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history
  • Gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, the study of whose early history has grown over the last twenty years
  • Uses an exploration of Tregelles' career to illuminate neglected aspects of Victorian religious life

Part of the book series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (CTAW)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. A Falmouth Childhood

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 1-9

  3. A Welsh Interlude

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 11-19

  4. A Significant Change

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    Pages 21-33

  5. Brethren in Plymouth and Wales

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 35-52

  6. Textual Criticism and Its Importance for SPT: A Necessary Digression

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 53-61

  7. Roman Frustrations and European Research

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 63-83

  8. An Embarrassed Advocate of Brethren in Italy

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 85-96

  9. Tregelles and Roman Catholicism

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 97-118

  10. Tregelles and Scripture

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 119-142

  11. Tregelles and Tischendorf

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 143-162

  12. Recognition, Controversy and Crisis (1850–1861)

    • Timothy C. F. Stunt
    Pages 163-172

  13. The Later Years

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    Pages 173-194

  14. A Muted Finale

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    Pages 195-201

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 203-282
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About this book

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history.  Several recent scholars have celebrated the 200th anniversary of the German textual critic Tischendorf but Tregelles, his contemporary English rival, has been neglected, despite his achievements being comparable. In addition to his decisive contribution to Biblical textual scholarship, this study of Tregelles’ career sheds light on developments among Quakers in the period, and Tregelles’s enthusiastic involvement with the early nineteenth-century Welsh literary renaissance usefully supplements recent studies on Iolo Morganwg. The early career of Tregelles also gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, (in both England and Italy) the study of whose early history has become more extensive over the last twenty years. The whole of Tregelles’s career therefore illuminates neglected aspectsof Victorian religious life.

Reviews

“This neat, compact, enthusiastic biography surveys the life and work of Cornish auto-didact and pioneering biblical scholar Samuel Prideaux Tregelles … . This work should appeal to specialists in the field of nineteenth-century biblical scholarship.” (R. J. W. Mills, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72 (1), January, 2021)

“Stunt’s book will be welcome to any reader with an interest in the history of the Plymouth Brethren or New Testament textual criticism as well as the Risorgimento, and certainly belongs in the libraries of universities, theology departments and seminaries. … Stunt ‘the last of the gentlemen scholars’, a characterisation much in evidence in this book which illuminates the life and work of one of the nineteenth-century’s pivotal scholars who deserves a far greater renown than historians generally accord him.” (T J Marinello, European Journal of Theology, Vol. 30 (1), 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Naples, USA

    Timothy C. F. Stunt

About the author

Timothy C. F. Stunt is an independent scholar, whose study of radical evangelicals in From Awakening to Secession (2000) was the basis for his PhD awarded by Cambridge University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

  • Book Subtitle: A Forgotten Scholar

  • Authors: Timothy C. F. Stunt

  • Series Title: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32266-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32265-6Published: 04 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32268-7Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32266-3Published: 03 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5838

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Religion, Social History, Cultural History, Intellectual Studies

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