Tancred, or The New Crusade
Tancred, or The New Crusade,a novel by B. Disraeli , published 1847 .
This is the last of the trilogy Coningsby — Sybil —Tancred. Much of the novel is devoted to an attempt to resolve the antagonism between Judaism and Christianity and to establish a role for a reforming faith and revitalized Church in a progressive society. Tancred, whose brilliant social and political future is assured, declares to his bewildered parents, Lord and Lady Montacute, that he must reject their plans for him and seek a faith and philosophy for himself in the Holy Land, where the secrets of the ‘Asian mystery’ may be revealed to him. He abandons the London of society hostesses and the young bloods of White's, travels to Jerusalem, and thence to Sinai, where he receives a revelation from the Angel of Arabia of ‘a common Father’. But he soon becomes embroiled in war and intrigue between the Druses and the Maronites, and...
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