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Church Life
Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of "church life" experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century. Spanning the period fromthe English Revolution to the Glorious Revolution, and beyond, the contributors examine the social, political, and religious character of England's "gathered" churches and reformed parishes: how pastors and their congregations interacted; how Dissenters related to their meetings as religiouscommunities; and what the experience of church life was like for ordinary members as well as their ministers, includi...
The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan
A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.
Grace Overwhelming
Awarded the 2007 National Research Prize SAES/AEFA. This study is a reappraisal of John Bunyan in the light of the dissenting religious culture of the late-seventeenth century. Charges of schism and fanaticism were repeatedly levelled against Bunyan, both from within the dissenting community and without, but far from being chastened by these accusations, Bunyan responded with a religious discourse marked by a rhetoric of excess. The focus of this book is therefore upon Bunyan's overwhelming spiritual experiences, especially the representation of torment, in his literary and polemical works. The believers' suffering was an obsessive concern of dissenting ministers, even to the point where the...
Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800
The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre. Particular attention is paid to the contexts in which letters were composed, sent, read, distributed, and then destroyed, copied or printed, in periods of religious tolerance or persecution. The opening section, ‘Protestant identities’, examines the importance of letters in the shaping of British protestantism from the underground correspondence of Protestant martyrs in the reign of Mary I to dissident letters after the Act of Toleration. ‘Representations of British Catholicism’, explores the way English, Irish and Scottish Catholics, whether in exile or at home, defined their faith, established epistolary networks, and addressed political and religious allegiances in the face of adversity. The last part, ‘Religion, science and philosophy’, focuses on the religious content of correspondence between natural scientists and philosophers.
The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland, the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity, the perceptions of 'refuge', and Huguenot attitudes towards education, social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture
Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable, significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England. Whilst there has been regular, if often cursory, scholarly interest in his activities as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is the first sustained book-length study of the man for almost a century. L'Estrange's engagement on the Royalist side during the Civil war, and his energetic pamphleteering for the return of the King in the months preceding the Restoration earned him a reputation as one of the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the Press under Charles II, he was charged with preventing the printing and publication of dissenting writings; his add...
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, it provides unparalleled scope and expertise, ranging from literary theory to religious history and from theology to post-colonial criticism. The Handbook is structured in four sections. The first, 'Contexts', deals with the historical Bunyan in relation to various aspects of his ...
The Puritan Literary Tradition
What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the ...
L'Expérience puritaine
Cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la vie des communautés puritaines dans la Grande-Bretagne du XVIIe siècle et du début du XVIIIe siècle. Grâce à des dizaines de manuscrits rédigés par les pasteurs d'Églises indépendantes sur tout le territoire britannique, on a pu retracer la fondation d'Églises en marge de l'Église nationale, leurs procédures d'admission, la discipline exercée, les stratégies de survie en période de persécution, les relations entre fidèles, mais également le parcours individuel d'hommes et de femmes qui venaient faire le récit de leurs expériences spirituelles en public pour rejoindre une congrégation. Ces manuscrits contiennent les minutes d'assemblées qui se tenaient chaque mois pour régler les affaires internes à chaque communauté, ainsi que des registres, des récits de fondations, des récits de controverses, des biographies, des correspondances, composant l'histoire des Églises dissidentes, avant et après l'Acte de Tolérance. Collectivement, ces documents représentent un corpus inédit pour saisir l'histoire et l'évolution du puritanisme et un vibrant hommage à l'écriture calviniste en terre réformée.
