What is the author's style in The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens?

In many ways, Dickens was a precursor to British and American progressives, who not only emphasized the importance of the state in protecting the weak from private sources of power but also put forth a more serious and secular perspective on the world that dismissed belief in miracles as silly and primitive while emphasizing some of Jesus' moral teachings as the most important moral ideas in life.

This perspective comes out strongly in The Life of Our Lord. Dickens acknowledges Jesus' miracles and thought the New Testament to be the greatest of all books. But the reader should be aware that Dickens has a tendency to make the miraculous and theological in Jesus' life serve the moral teachings and actions of Jesus. This emphasis is at variance with those of many, if not most followers of Jesus and displays the particularities of Dickens's time and personal attitudes.