Introduction
Part One: The Social Contexts of a Private Faith
1. Gender Egalitarianism: The Baptist Women of the Mill Yard Church
2. Religious Respectability: The Reverend Newman Hall's Divorce Case
3. Spiritual Exploration: Thomas Cook, Victorian Tourists, and the Holy Land
Part Two: The Social Contexts of a Contested Faith
4. Biblical Criticism and the Crisis of Belief: D. F. Strauss's Leben Jesus in Britain
5. Biblical Criticism and the Desire for Reform: Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch
6. Biblical Criticism and Anti-Christian Rhetoric: Joseph Barker and the Case against the Bible
7. Biblical Criticism and the Secularist Mentality: Charles Bradlaugh and the Case against Miracles
8. The Appeal of Victorian Apologetics: Thomas Cooper and the Case for Christian Orthodoxy
Part Three: The Politics of Free Church Polity
9. Free Church Ecclesiology: Lay Representation and the Methodist New Connexion
10. Free Church Politics and the Gathered Church: The Evangelical Case for Religious Pluralism
11. Free Church Politics and Contested Memories: The Historical Case for Disestablishment
12. Free Church Politics and the British Empire: The Baptist Case against Jamaica's Colonial Governor
Conclusion
Notes