Klaver, Jan Marten Ivo.
“Charles Kingsley and the Limits of Humanity,” Nederlands Archief Voor
Kerkgeschiedenis: Dutch Review of Church History Vol. 81, No. 2 (2001):
115-141.
Klaver declares that historians and biographers,
even Kingsley's wife, have tended to ignore Kingsley's contributions to
the journal The Christian Socialist while paying a great deal of
attention to what he wrote for the earlier Politics for the People.
Klaver analyses his writings for this former journal concluding that the
extreme views expressed, especially on the literal interpretation of the
Bible and on the topic of the destruction of the Canaanites, were uncongenial
to some. He considers it understandable if the likes of Mrs. Kingsley
and Thomas Hughes, who undoubtedly felt that these immoderate and merciless
views were not truly representative of Kingsley's generous nature, remained
silent regarding these articles. "What is less understandable is
the equally uncritical silence of later historians on these writings" (141).
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