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Statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School.Hughes's 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days did much to promote muscular Christianity throughout the English-speaking world.. Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons ... He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel The Recollections of ...
William E. Winn, "Tom Brown's Schooldays and the Development of 'Muscular Christianity'" Church History (1960) 29#1 pp. 64–73 JSTOR 3161617; Derek Winterbottom, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Arnold, Tom Brown and the English Public Schools (Alondra Books, Isle of Man, 2022), 216 pp., ISBN No. 978-0-9567540-9-7. online on The Internet Archive.
The New Testament uses a number of athletic metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews.Such metaphors also appear in the writings of contemporary philosophers, such as Epictetus and Philo, [2] drawing on the tradition of the Olympic Games, [3] and this may have influenced New Testament use of the imagery.
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A new book documents growing extremism in some evangelical churches, ... 'A war for the essence and character of American Christianity' described in new book. Jon Ward. December 5, 2023 at 5:00 AM ...
The Reverend Ben Chambers was an advocate of Muscular Christianity, encouraging healthy minds and healthy bodies. [4] Their Goodison Park ground has a church partially within the perimeter and as such do not play early matches on Sunday to avoid clashing with the services of the church. [ 5 ]
Nearly a dozen Illinois teenagers were slapped with felony charges after they allegedly used dating apps to lure and beat two adult men over the summer — reportedly as part of a social media ...