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These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
Evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. Evangelicals maintain the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus' atonement. Evangelicals can be found on every continent and among nearly all Christian denominations. The origin of this group of people has been traced to the turn of the eighteenth century, with roots in the Puritan and Pietist movements in England and Germany. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians thr...
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
Itineraries, perambulations, and surveys : the intersections of chorography and cartography in the sixteenth century / John M. Adrian -- To serve my purpose : interpretive agency in George Wither's A collection of emblemes / Rob Browning -- The three noble kinsmen : Chaucer, Shakespeare, Fletcher / Kathryn L. Lynch -- Ovid and the question of politics in early modern England / Heather James -- Parodies lost : Aretino reads Raimondi /Helen M. Whall -- Accepting the flesh : George Herbert and the sacrament of Holy Communion / Jeannie Sargent Judge -- Twixt treason and convenience : some images of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford / Julia B. Griffin -- Backbiters, flatterers, and monarchs : domestic politics in The tragedy of Mariam / Heather E. Ostman -- Gender and the market in Henry VI, I / Jennifer A. Rich -- Hrethel's heirloom : kinship, succession, and weaponry in Beowulf / Erin Mullally -- Shylock : Shakespeare's bad Jew / Jay L. Halio -- Coping with providentialism : trauma, identity, and the failure of the English Reformation / Scott Lucas.
Is forgiveness possible? How does one truly forgive? This topic is explored in-depth by scholars presenting various world-views on the subject of forgiveness.
Offers a unique collection of primary sources for eighteenth-century evangelical spirituality in America and Britain, along with introduction and commentary, prepared by a prominent scholar of evangelical theology.
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The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organ...