Henry Longueville Mansel

Francesca Norman, Ph.D., studied Theology and completed her doctoral thesis on Mansel at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2015. She is an Anglican and has keen interests in the history of the Church of England.

• AcknowledgementsPreface1 Introduction1 Context2 Methodology3 Structure2 Mansel’s Theological and Philosophical Ideas in Context: Biographical Account of Mansel’s Life and Work1 Introduction2 Family Background3 Herbert Spencer and Katherine Mansel4 Life at Oxford5 Dean of St Paul’s6 Conclusion3 Mansel’s Theological and Philosophical Ideas in Context: The Historical Roots of Mansel’s Thought1 Introduction2 Bishop Peter Browne (c.1665–1735)3 Bishop Joseph Butler (1692–1752)4 Thomas Reid (1710–1796)5 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)6 Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856)7 Conclusion4 The Content of Mansel’s Philosophical Theology1 Introduction2 Theistic Personalism3 ‘I-Thou’4 Free Will5 Negative Theology and Analogy6 Prayer7 Personal Relation8 Theory of Relativity9 Rejection of the Absolute10 Limits of Ethical Knowledge11 Conclusion5 Mansel’s Theological and Philosophical Ideas in Context: Initial Reception1 Introduction2 Positive Responses (Oxford Tories and Alexander Campbell Fraser)3 Post-Tractarian and Roman Catholic Responses (William George Ward and John Henry Newman)4 Reception by ‘Agnostics’ (Herbert Spencer and Thomas Henry Huxley)5 Metaphysical and Idealist Reactions to Mansel6 Conclusion6 Mansel, Political Networks and Personalities1 Introduction2 Mansel’s Religious Politics: Anglican Toryism3 Lord Carnarvon4 Gathorne Hardy5 Salisbury6 Conclusion7 The 1859 Election and the Maurice Controversy1 Introduction2 The Context of the 1859 Election3 The Mansel-Maurice Controversy in Political Context4 Outline of a Controversy5 Maurice and the Carlylean Doctrine of Certainty6 Conclusion8 The 1865 Election and the Mill Controversy1 Introduction2 After 1859: Gladstone and the Liberal Party3 The Mansel-Mill Controversy in Political Context4 Outline of a Controversy5 Mill and the Comtean Religion of Humanity6 Conclusion9 Conclusion1 Key Findings2 A Reputation Sidelined3 St Peter’s and St Paul’s, CosgroveAppendix: Literature Survey1 Introduction2 Victorian Biographical Studies3 Literature on Mansel and the Agnostic Tradition4 Mansel, Kierkegaard and Barth5 ConclusionBibliography