A Review Article: VICTOR SHEA AND WILLIAM WHITLA, EDS. Essays and Reviews. The 1860 Text and Its Reading. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 1,057, appendices, bibliography, indices. $90.00.
The publication of Essays and Reviews in 1860 by a group of liberal Anglican churchmen has always been taken by scholars to mark a decisive point in the accommodation of Anglican orthodoxy to emergent critical movements in Biblical studies, science and history. Many years later, when the ensuing furor had died down, almost inevitably many of the arguments advanced by the volume's contributors-arguments which attracted hostility and notoriety at the time …