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Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c.1560-1660
Av Peter Lake, Michael Questier
Inbunden, 2000
1307 kr
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The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus on what came to be regarded as orthodox.The different ways in which people expressed `conformity' or `nonconformity' to the 1559 settlement of religion in the English …
Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559
Inbunden, 2001
1242 kr
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The role of bishops in the process of Reformation in the 16th century, studied from their surviving writings and contemporary discussion.The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the …
Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War
Inbunden, 2003
1307 kr
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An examination of Puritan iconoclasm, the reasons which led to it, and the forces which sustained it.This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the …
Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition
Inbunden, 2002
1306 kr
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Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.Christabel Pankhurst was …
Cult of King Charles the Martyr
Av Andrew Lacey
Inbunden, 2003
1295 kr
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The first study to deal exclusively with the cult and the political theology underpinning it, taking the story up to 1859.The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649. Its component parts were fashioned during Charles's captivity and were readily …
Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England
A Northamptonshire Maid's Tragedy
Inbunden, 2015
1681 kr
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A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of the English Civil War.This book starts with an extraordinary event and document. The event is the trial and execution for infanticide of a puritan …
Origins of Primitive Methodism
Av Sandy Calder
Inbunden, 2016
1307 kr
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The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins.This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the …
Catholicism, Identity and Politics in the Age of Enlightenment
The Life and Career of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 1745-1810
Inbunden, 2016
1295 kr
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Explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth centuryThis book explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth century, a period which marked a critical moment of transition in their …
Education of the Anglican Clergy, 1780-1839
Av Sara Slinn
Inbunden, 2017
1295 kr
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This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of the clergy in late HanoverianEngland and Wales.This study of recruitment to the ministry of the …
'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645
Av Leonie James
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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Presents Scotland as a case study for a fresh interpretation of Archbishop William Laud, his career and his working partnership with Charles I.William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), remains one of the most controversial figures in British ecclesiastical and political history. His rise to …
Protestant Pluralism
The Reception of the Toleration Act, 1689-1720
Inbunden, 2018
1242 kr
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The 1689 Toleration Act marked a profound shift in the English religious landscape. By permitting the public worship of Protestant Dissenters (largely Presbyterian), the statute laid the foundations for legal religious pluralism,albeit limited, and ensured that eighteenth-century English society …
Mysticism in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2019
1242 kr
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Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.Mysticism in Early Modern England examines …
Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy in Britain, 1660-1914
Av Clyde Binfield, G M Ditchfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1333 kr
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Philanthropy was an essential feature of the relationship between Dissent and the society from which it sometimes felt itself to be separate.This collection examines the contribution made by Dissenters from the Church of England to the history and development of charity and philanthropy in Britain …
Church of England and British Politics since 1900
Av Tom Rodger, Philip Williamson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1809 kr
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Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership.During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the …
Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800
Inbunden, 2020
1346 kr
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This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.This innovative book reveals how …
Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-Century England
'An ardent desire of truth'
Inbunden, 2021
1681 kr
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Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. While small, the movement provoked fierce opposition from both Anglicans and Orthodox Dissenters.Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious …
Britain and the German Churches, 1945-1950
The Role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British Zone
Av Peter Howson
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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Explores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany.It is well known that at the key allied conferences during the latter part of World War II the future victorious allies were already progressing their post-war planning. Duly, an …
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity
Av Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, Ashley Null m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1681 kr
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Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy …
Sunday School Movement in Britain, 1900-1939
Inbunden, 2023
1133 kr
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Demonstrates the vital role Sunday schools played in forming and sustaining faith before, during, and after the First World War for British populations both at home and abroad.Sunday schools were an important part of the religious landscape of twentieth-century Britain and they were widely attended …
Crisis of Calvinism in Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Arminian Theologies of Predestination and Grace
Inbunden, 2023
1295 kr
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This book investigates a puzzling and neglected phenomenon - the rise of English Arminianism during the decade of puritan rule. Throughout the 1650s, numerous publications, from scholarly folios to popular pamphlets, attacked the doctrinal commitments of Reformed Orthodoxy. This anti-Calvinist …
British Christianity and the Second World War
Inbunden, 2023
1230 kr
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Examines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young during the Second World War.This volume presents a major reappraisal of the role of Christianity in Great Britain between 1939 and 1945, examining the …
Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800
Häftad, 2024
355 kr
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Reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion.In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century European wars of religion, civil religionists such as David Hume, Edward Gibbon, the third earl of …
Anti-Catholicism in Scotland, 1688–1750
Popery, Politics and Protestant Identities
Inbunden, 2026
1230 kr
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Situates anti-Catholicism in Scotland within a 'long Reformation', demonstrating that opposition to 'popery' was influenced equally by the changing culture of Scottish Protestantism and the external threat of Jacobitism.The revolution of 1688-90 brought about the overthrow and exile of the Catholic …
Church of England’s Western Schism
1815-1825
Inbunden, 2026
1295 kr
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Examines one of the most significant events in the history of the late Georgian church, and revises accepted notions of Evangelical and Anglican ecclesiology and identity.This study examines the establishment and progress of the Western Schism (1815-1825), a dramatic group secession from the Church …
Cambridge Evangelicals and the English Reformation, c. 1520–1540
Inbunden, 2026
1230 kr
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Reconsiders key aspects of the early English Reformation and the intellectual, theological and social foundations of the English state church.Cambridge Evangelicals and the English Reformation uses the early evangelical reformers clustered at the University of Cambridge in the 1520s and 30s as a …
Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815-1914
Encountering and Managing the Poor
Av Robert Lee
Inbunden, 2006
1242 kr
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A vivid and accessible reappraisal of the frequently uneasy relationship between the Victorian clergyman and his congregation.The conduct of divine service was only one item on the agenda of the nineteenth-century clergyman. He might have to sit on the magistrates' bench, or concern himself with …
Church of England and the Holocaust
Christianity, Memory and Nazism
Av Tom Lawson
Inbunden, 2006
1242 kr
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A challenging interpretation both of the Holocaust and its wider context, and the Church of England's role during the period.This is the first book to consider the Anglican church's response to the Nazi persecution and then murder of Europe's Jews. Acting as a critique of the historiography of the …
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
Av Kenneth Fincham, Peter Lake
Inbunden, 2006
1307 kr
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New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the …
Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c.1400-1700
Av Thomas S Freeman, Thomas Mayer
Inbunden, 2007
1307 kr
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A fresh examination of the idea of martyrdom in the transition from the medieval to the modern periods.Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the late middle ages through the early modern era. The variety of paradigms of Christian martyrdom (with, for example, virginity or …
Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953
Clergy under Fire
Inbunden, 2007
1697 kr
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A survey and reassessment of the role of the army chaplain in its first 150 years.Few military or ecclesiastical figures are as controversial as the military chaplain, routinely attacked by pacifist and anticlerical commentators and too readily dismissed by religious and military historians. This …
