This article discusses some of the ways in which ideas about the city influenced the thinking of British Christians from 1840 to the early twentieth century. First, it explores nonconformist conceptions of the city, suggesting that, although the urban environment offered favourable circumstances for nonconformist growth, a desire to return to, or incorporate elements of, rural life was rarely far away. It explores why, when the garden city movement began, it found such fertile soil among Christian thinkers. Secondly, it considers some of the biblical paradigms that shaped late Victorian thinking about the city. Preachers and writers moved seamlessly from their well-stocked religious imaginations to contemplating the practicalities of the city, and back again. It is argued that the Christian evocation of medieval cities, biblical cities and garden cities shaped in important ways the conceptualizations of the urban world.

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维多利亚时代的城市与基督教的想象：从哥特式城市到花园城市

本文讨论了从 1840 年到 20 世纪初，关于这座城市的观念如何影响英国基督徒的思想。首先，它探讨了不墨守成规的城市概念，表明尽管城市环境为不墨守成规的发展提供了有利的环境，但回归乡村生活或融入乡村生活元素的愿望并不遥远。它探讨了为什么在花园城市运动开始时，它在基督教思想家中找到了如此肥沃的土壤。其次，它考虑了一些塑造维多利亚时代晚期城市思考的圣经范式。传教士和作家从他们丰富的宗教想象无缝地转移到思考城市的实用性，然后又回来了。有人认为，中世纪城市的基督教召唤，