This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history. Several recent scholars have celebrated the 200th anniversary of the German textual critic Tischendorf but Tregelles, his contemporary English rival, has been neglected, despite his achievements being comparable. In addition to his decisive contribution to Biblical textual scholarship, this study of Tregelles' career sheds light on developments among Quakers in the period, and Tregelles's enthusiastic involvement with the early nineteenth-century Welsh literary renaissance usefully supplements recent studies on Iolo Morganwg. The early career of Tregelles also gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, (in both England and Italy) the study of whose early history has become more extensive over the last twenty years. The whole of Tregelles's career therefore illuminates neglected aspects of Victorian religious life.

Autorentext
Timothy C. F. Stunt is an independent scholar, whose study of radical evangelicals in From Awakening to Secession (2000) was the basis for his PhD awarded by Cambridge University.

Inhalt
1. A Falmouth Childhood2. A Welsh Interlude3. A Significant Change4. Brethren in Plymouth and Wales5. Textual Criticism and its importance for SPT: A Necessary Digression6. Roman Frustrations and European Research7. An Embarrassed advocate of Brethren in Italy8. Tregelles and Roman Catholicism9. Tregelles and Scripture10. SPT and Tischendorf11. Recognition, Controversy and Crisis (1850-61)12. The Later Years13. A Muted Finale14. Epilogue