“I have been reading Pusey’s Daniel the Prophet, which (thank God)…” — Charles Tennyson Turner

“I have been reading Pusey’s Daniel the Prophet, which (thank God) completely—as I think and as very many will think with me—disposes of the rickety and crotchety arguments of those who vainly thought they had found a ποῦ στῶ in him whereby to upheave all prophecy and miracle.”

Expressing his confidence in a theological defence of prophecy and miracle · Letter to Alfred Tennyson, 1865

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Charles Tennyson Turner

About Charles Tennyson Turner

4 July 1808–25 April 1879

Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman…

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