"Hilton's fascinating, ambitious book does much more to lighten our darkness about the broader significance of evangelicalism....A persuasive and thought-provoking book."--
Journal of British Studies"Once the envy subsides, religious historians who open this extraordinary and arresting book will be strongly tempted to read it twice: once for the persuasive argument it makes about its subject, and a second time for the sheer pleasure of observing intellectual history...practiced at the very highest levels of insight and erudition....No subsequent discussion of society or religion in the age can properly begin without [this book]."--
Church History"Historians of this period are going to have to take account of Hilton's careful reading of evangelical theology and its economic implications....This important book confronts us with a puzzling mixture of unresolved relationships between religious values, social classes, material conditions, scientific ideas, and individual consciences. One of the great virtues of this volume is that it forces us to address the dilemma with abundant new information and a renewed sense of urgency."--
Albion"As a contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century British culture,
The Age of Atonement is undoubtedly a study of extraordinary importance and distinction."--
Journal of British Studies"A wide-ranging, subtle, and richly rewarding study that can be pursued through several strands....This major work of intellectual and cultural history should be in all scholarly libraries and will be well worth the serious attention of students of this period."--
Religious Studies Review"An exceptionally well-researched book, with a wide-ranging approach to its subject. exploring many avenues, often ususual ones."--
The Tablet"Boyd Hilton has written a rich, stimulating, often-fascinating, if rather old-fashioned, intellectual history....An engaging, provocative, first-rate book whose many novel facets cannot be appreciated in a short review but should certainly be explored by students of Victorian culture."--
American Historical Review"Dr. Hilton's general thesis contains an important truth, and it throws a bold and unconventional light across the whole of nineteenth-century British intellectual history."--
The Catholic Historical Review
