The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement

This is an account of the origins and directions of the Broad Church liberal movement of the 19th century to about 1880. Tod Jones provides readers with an approach to the movement, demonstrating the development of the Broad Church movement by sketching the complex web connecting both important individuals and generations of great thinkers. The opinions and correspondence of key figures such as Thomas Arnold, Mathew Arnold, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson are examined, as are broader questions about the Broad Church movement’s roots in the Erasmian influence on England’s church reformers.