Abstract
This chapter presents excerpts from William Wilberforce's A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christians (1797). Wilberforce pursued a career in politics, capped by his election as MP for Hull in 1780. In 1785, Wilberforce turned his attention once again to Christianity and experienced conversion. He also campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and showed concern for the nation's moral state. In A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, Wilberforce differentiated between authentic believers and nominal Christians, making a case for the sinful disposition inherited by all humans and the need to acknowledge the salvific benefits of Jesus Christ's death on the cross.
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