Episode #108
0108 – 1797 AD - Wilberforce’s Manifesto - A Practical View of Christianity
<p>1797 AD – Wilberforce’s Manifesto: When a Parliamentarian Called Britain Back to “Real Christianity”</p> <p>Description:<br> In 1797, as Britain fought revolutionary France and watched its neighbor experiment with “Temples of Reason,” a different kind of revolution quietly appeared on London bookshop counters. William Wilberforce, already known for his exhausting campaign to end the British slave trade, released a thick volume with an even thicker title: A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians… Contrasted with Real Christianity. He wrote not as a cloistered theologian, but as a sitting Member of Parliament who had been shaken years earlier b...


