Another Illustration of The Warfare of Conscience with Theology as a State of Mind

Josef L. Altholz: The Warfare of Conscience with Theology

Footnote 13 of the author's "The Warfare of Conscience with Theology" in The Mind and Art of Victorian England, which the University of Minnesota Press published in 1976. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
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This point is made by Murphy, "The Ethical Revolt," p. 811. Another illustration of the state of mind which produced this revulsion is the case of Tennyson, who vividly remembered an aunt saying, "Alfred, Alfred, whenever I look at you I think of the words, 'Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.' " A Catholic critic remarked, "It is the Calvinistic idea of God and hell which is at the bottom of it." Maisie Ward, The Wilfrid Wards and the Transition (London, 1934), I, 167-68.

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