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Book SynopsisRichard Sibthorp, youngest son of a celebrated Lincolnshire family, became through his forceful preaching and acknowledged piety, one of the leading Anglican Evangelicals of the 1820s. During the next decade his Old Testament studies turned him into a High Churchman who transformed his chapel on the Isle of Wight into a pioneering centre of ritualism. In 1841, at great personal cost, he converted to Rome. More astonishing was his announcement, in October 1843, that he was returning to the Establishment. This new biography challenges received opinions of Sibthorp. He emerges as a man of impressive spirituality, unwilling to compromise in his search for truth, even at the price of misunderstanding and ridicule.
Trade Review"Dr Trott is to be congratulated. With exemplary lucidity, offering a sure guide to Sibthorp's part in the Oxford Movement and the Evangelical, Catholic and ritual revivals, he throws a light on some of the wider issues in the pre-history of modem ecumenism and the study of the Victorian Church..." -- Sheridan Gilley, author of Newman and his Age and A History of Religion in Britain.
