Social and religious thought of Charles Kingsley and his place in the Christian Socialist movement of 1848-54

Abstract

The attempt is made in this study, by approaching him through the work of the Christian Socialists and his place in the Movement, and by a consideration of his main activities, to demonstrate the extent to which Kingsley's social thought and activity took their form and direction from the character of his theology. As subsidiary to this it is the aim of the first chapter to indicate the milieu out of which the Movement rose, and, by inference at least, that the circumstances of a time of social change conditioned both Kingsley's thought and the character of Maurice's theological restatement.