Abstract
The text under consideration is extracted from the book "Religion in Victorian Britain?, published in 1988. It is called "The Word and the World: Evangelicalism in the Victorian City" and was written by David Englander, a Lecturer in European Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the Open University. This essay deals with Victorian religion and tackles the thorny issue of the revival and decline of Evangelicalism. The title of the text is relevant in order to understand its overall aim. There is a striking contrast between "the Word", which refers to the word of God, and "the World", with can be related to worldliness. Thus, this essay analyzes the relationship between the temporal and the spiritual during Queen Victoria's reign, paying particular attention to the revival of Evangelicalism.
