The parting of friends : the Wilberforces and Henry Manning / David Newsome

Grand Rapids, Mich. Leominster, U.K. : Eerdmans ; Gracewing, 1993. 1st edition in this form. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 486 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction: The crisis of evangelicalism -- The beginning and the end -- Evangelicalism and church order -- Dramatis Personae -- 1. The cradle of evangelicalism -- Family alliances and Barbara Spooner -- The Wilberforce house -- The children at school -- Joyousness and seriousness -- 2. The bastion of orthodoxy -- Choosing a university -- The Oxford Renaissance -- Robert Wilberforce and John Keble -- Relations with Pusey and Hawkins -- The three Oriel tutors -- Samuel Wilberforce at Oxford -- Henry Wilberforce and J. H. Newman -- 3. Family affairs -- Lavington and the Sargents -- Life at Checkenden -- The speculations of an eldest son -- New links and losses -- Husbands and wives -- At Brithstone and East Farleigh 4. Questions of churchmanship -- Apostolical enthusiasms -- Filial duties and dilemmas -- The law and the gospel -- The Renversement des Alliances -- The brothers and Henry Manning -- 5. Church, state and country parish -- Conservatives and Reformers -- The cure of souls -- Bidding for power -- Jane Legard and Burton Agnes -- The death of Caroline Manning -- 6. The three archdeacons -- Triumph and tribulations -- Charges, the church and confession -- The clergy of the East Riding and the curates of Alverstoke -- New issues at Oxford -- Episcopal ambitions: Samuel Wilberforce and Henry Manning. 7. Defeats and defections -- The defection of the Ryders -- Manning and Anglo-Catholicism -- Conflicts of heart and head -- Samuel Wilberforce and the Via Media -- R. D. Hampden and T. W. Allies -- The crisis of the Gorham judgment -- Henry and Mary Wilberforce -- 8. The final parting -- The succession of Henry Manning -- Robert Wilberforce and the theological synthesis -- The battle of Burton Agnes -- The last capitulation -- Epilogue: After the dispersion -- Two ecclesiastical statesmen. Subjects; Manning, Henry Edward 1808-1892 Friends and associates. Wilberforce, Robert Isaac 1802-1857. Catholic converts England ; Biography. Cardinals England. Oxford movement. Church History.