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Romanticism Concerned with literature and art Love of the unclassifiable Moods Impressions Scenes or stories Sights or sounds Peculiar customs Two Mindsets First: Salvation Army Militantly Protestant Concerned with "coming to Christ" Second: Stressed "emotion of heart" and "beauty of Christianity" Did not connect to social concerns Results Provocative dedication to theology The religious Through the "refounding of monastic orders" The arts J.E. Millais (1829-1896) Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882) Romantics and Nature First group Belief that nature and Christianity are related Second group Christianity dominates nature Wackenroder Heartfelt Outpourings of an Art loving Monk "derived the love of art from the stimulus of religion" (48). Chateaubriand Inspiration came partly from Christian music Genius of Christianity "Explain those eternal mysteries of life which science had not been able to analyze" (48). Christ: Link between the human and divine Christianity explains many "life" questions Humanity Purpose Origin Chateaubriand: Relations All things interrelated Relation between God and Humanity reflected in nature Christianity revealed in Catholic Church Defense of Catholicism "..harmony of all things" (49). Centralization Catholicism centralized Protestantism "chaos" Influence branched out to all of the world Preferred religion by many Romantics Revival of European Catholicism Started at Oxford "Catholicize" English Anglicanism Hurrel Froude: "stress the liturgy of the Church…" (50). John Henry Newman: "Justification by faith" not pillar of Christian doctrine "the church of the twelfth century must be the church of the nineteenth" (50). |