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James Martineau and the Catholic Spirit Amid the Tensions of Dublin, 1828-1832

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Ralph Waller
Ralph Waller*
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Westminster College, Oxford
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James Marrineau is generally known as a Unitarian divine, who in the years which followed the publication of Origin of Species (1859) brought his massive intellect to the defence of Christianity, especially in his debates with Henry Spencer, Professor John Tyndall, and Henry Sidgwick. What is less well-known about Martineau is that in 1828 at the age of twenty-three he began his ministry in Dublin at Eustace Street Presbyterian Meeting House. Through his ‘Biographical Memoranda’, a sermon preached before the Synod of Munster, and his hymn book, A Collection of Hymns for Christian Worship which he compiled for the Dublin congregation, we are given a glimpse of his view of Irish Christianity and see in them a reflection of his strong catholic spirit, which was confirmed and strengthened by his Dublin experience.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 25: The Churches, Ireland and the Irish , 1989 , pp. 223 - 231
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1989

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