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Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903)

Auteur van The Life of Christ

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(eng) Often called Dean Farrar

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The Life of Christ (1874) 316 exemplaren
The Life and Work of St. Paul (1879) 116 exemplaren
History of Interpretation (1886) 88 exemplaren
The early days of Christianity (1882) 71 exemplaren
Eric, or Little by Little (1858) 57 exemplaren
The Gospel according to St. Luke (1880) 38 exemplaren
The Minor Prophets (1907) 24 exemplaren
Darkness and Dawn (1891) 20 exemplaren
Seekers after God (1884) 20 exemplaren
Eternal hope (1878) 19 exemplaren
Witness of the history to Christ (1870) 17 exemplaren
Solomon : his life and times (1800) 17 exemplaren
Julian Home (2012) 16 exemplaren
The silence and the voices of God (1874) 13 exemplaren
The voice from Sinai (2023) 11 exemplaren
The fall of man (1876) — Auteur — 11 exemplaren
The Life of Christ, Vol. II (1874) 11 exemplaren
The Book of Daniel (1895) 11 exemplaren
The Life of Christ (Volume 1) (1874) 10 exemplaren
The Cathedrals of England (1898) 8 exemplaren
In the days of thy youth (2009) 8 exemplaren
Truths to live by (2001) — Auteur — 8 exemplaren
Christianity for Buddhists (2002) 5 exemplaren
Woman's Work in the Home (1896) 4 exemplaren
Our English Minsters 3 exemplaren
Men I have known (1897) 3 exemplaren
The Book of Judges 2 exemplaren
What Heaven Is 2 exemplaren
Life of Christ Vol. IV (1891) 1 exemplaar
Þrír Vinir 1 exemplaar
Life of Christ Vol. III (1891) 1 exemplaar
Words of truth and wisdom (1901) 1 exemplaar
Life of Christ Vol. V (1891) 1 exemplaar
Places That Our Lord Loved (1930) 1 exemplaar
Ruskin as a religious teacher (1907) 1 exemplaar
THE HERODS (1898) 1 exemplaar
Talks on Temperance 1 exemplaar

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CalleFriden | 2 andere besprekingen | Feb 26, 2023 |
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UFTL | 2 andere besprekingen | Aug 17, 2021 |
Here's another of those books read by the protagonist of Of Human Bondage, Philip. Gah!

This was pretty awful. I thought it might be one of those archetypal British school boys books. I rather liked Stalky and Company when I read it, both as a youth and again as a more "mature" person. A year of so ago, I tried Tom Brown's School Days and found it unreadable, so I gave up on it. Anyway, perhaps this book is also meant to be a British school boy book, but it was also flagrantly written to provide moral teaching to young boys. What it actually shows, however, is a complete moral bankruptcy on the part of the author.

So, we have adolescent boys doing the kinds of things adolescent boys do. They have some rules handed down from above, but aren't given reasons for those rules other than being told, I suppose, that breaking them will inevitably lead to moral decay. But, the masters in the school pretty much ignore the boys and they, being adolescent boys, run amok when they can. Once in a while, they are caught stepping over the ill-defined lines (one of their masters awakes from his un-noticing moralistic trance, or something), and then their good, moral masters beat the living crap out of them with sticks. So, that's how we make Christians out of people: set incongruous rules; publicly humiliate people who break the rules, even inadvertently; and beat the living crap out of them if they piss the masters off too much with their adolescent behavior.

Then you have teenage boys constantly crying about one thing or another, holding hands, hooking their arms around each other's necks, and so forth. In what planet does that happen?
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lgpiper | 3 andere besprekingen | Jun 21, 2019 |
This was an extremely popular Victorian boys' book. Farrar's style is lively and engaging and he is clearly writing about what he knows. The plot, however---a sort of Pilgrim's Regress---strains our credulity. A lifetime's worth of poor decisions and moral deterioration is crammed into a few years of Eric's youth, with consequences that seem out of proportion. Laissez-faire school leadership which allows all this presented without apparent judgement on Farrar's part, as is the absence of Eric's parents, stationed in India. Personal responsibility and Muscular Christianity should be enough, appparently. But time and again firm purpose of amendment is undermined by false pride and a desire for popularity which a modern psychologist might attribute to emotional neglect. Schoolboy crushes are presented in deeply romantic terms with no hint of moral objection. A puzzling environment, but the backdrop to a great deal of Victorian literature.… (meer)
 
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