Incorporation of Faith                                               

If Faraday's beginnings make a life in science seem unlikely, his religious beliefs make it even more improbable that he should have made so great a contribution. Faraday's family  were Sandemanians or Glasites, a dissenting Christian sect who believed that the truth of the Bible was to be recovered by as literal a reading as possible. Sandemanians avoided theology and had no established clergy, making the Bible central to the conduct of their lives. Acquired in childhood but affirmed by his public confession of faith in July 1821, Faraday's Christianity required that he express his faith in the smallest details of everyday life as well as the greatest.

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