The great figure here was a writer named Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Women’s literature about a kind of middle-class heaven was very popular, with Jesus as a sensitive friend and helper.
(Image: Malaha/Shutterstock) Feminized Christianity in Women’s Literature
The feminized and sentimental Victorian Protestantism portrayed Jesus as an empathetic friend. Victorian Protestantism was more sentimental, decorative, and “feminized” than its predecessors. Jesus as a friend and companion, rather than God as an angry judge, dominated popular religion.
By Patrick Allitt, Emory University Victorian religion in America was less doctrinal and more sentimental than its Puritan antecedents.
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