The Post Reformation

Author : John Spurr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131788261X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-Reformation written by John Spurr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and the search for an acceptable religious settlement, which stimulated the Pilgrim Fathers to leave to settle America, the Popish plot and the Glorious Revolution in which James II was kicked off the throne. This book looks at both the private aspects of human beliefs and practices and also institutional religion, investigating the growing competition between rival versions of Christianity and the growing expectation that individuals should be allowed to worship as they saw fit.

Author : Professor Michael Martin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472432681
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England written by Professor Michael Martin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the figures examined in this study—John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead—is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of phenomenology, the primary mode of inquiry of this study resides in contemplation, not in a religious sense, but in the realm of perception, attendance, and acceptance. Martin portrays figures such as Dee, Digby, and Thomas Vaughan not as the eccentrics they are often depicted to have been, but rather as participating in a religious mainstream that had been radically altered by the disappearance of any kind of mandatory or regular spiritual direction, a problem which was further complicated and exacerbated by the rise of science. Thus this study contributes to a reconfiguration of our notion of what ‘religious orthodoxy’ really meant during the period, and calls into question our own assumptions about what is (or was) ‘orthodox’ and ‘heterodox.’

Author : Prof Dr Rinse H Reeling Brouwer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472448359
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy written by Prof Dr Rinse H Reeling Brouwer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Rinse Reeling Brouwer identifies the sources of Barth’s conversation and analyses Barth’s use and his (mis)understandings of them. He sketches Barth’s treatment of some authors that are representative for successive stages of the elder protestant theology. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth’s role as a pupil of Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of the Church Dogmatics.

Author : Donna B. Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521474566
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 written by Donna B. Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories. It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority.

Author : Timothy J. Wengert
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Gospel written by Timothy J. Wengert and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Law and Gospel, Timothy Wengert, one of the world's leading Melancthon scholars, explores the relationship between poenitentia and law in his theology during the time he was opposed by another of Luther's disciples, John Agricola.0

Author : Herman J. Selderhuis
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441237194
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calvin's Theology of the Psalms (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought) written by Herman J. Selderhuis and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing book, Herman Selderhuis argues that John Calvin's biblical interpretation of the Psalms is fundamentally shaped by his doctrine of God. Selderhuis minimizes references to other Calvin studies and other works by Calvin, thus allowing Calvin's theology on the Psalms to speak for itself. The book is organized thematically according to divine attributes. Reformation and Calvin scholars as well as interested Reformed readers will value this resource.

Author : Kenneth Fincham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843832534
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Politics in Post-reformation England written by Kenneth Fincham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures, the relationship of theology and secular ideologies, and the Civil War. Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of art and protestantism; the providentialist thinking of Charles I;the operation of the penal laws against Catholics; and protestantism in the localities of Yorkshire and Norwich. KENNETH FINCHAM is Reader in History at the University of Kent; Professor PETER LAKE teaches in the Department of History at Princeton University. Contributors: THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST, PATRICK COLLINSON, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER LAKE, SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE, DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, ANTHONY MILTON, PAUL SEAVER, WILLIAM SHEILS

Author : Jonathan Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317166248
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England written by Jonathan Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part, traditional historical narratives of the English Reformation have been distinctly tone deaf. Recent scholarship has begun to take increasing notice of some elements of Reformed musical practice, such as the congregational singing of psalms in meter. This book marks a significant advance in that area, combining an understanding of theory as expressed in contemporary religious and musical discourse, with a detailed study of the practice of church music in key sites of religious worship. Divided into three sections - 'Discourses', 'Sites', and 'Identities' - the book begins with an exploration of the classical and religious discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of music, and its use in religious worship. It then moves on to an investigation of the actual practice of church music in parish and cathedral churches, before shifting its attention to the people of Elizabethan England, and the ways in which music both served and shaped the difficult process of Protestantisation. Through an exploration of these issues, and by reintegrating music back into the Elizabethan church, we gain an expanded and enriched understanding of the complex evolution of religious identities, and of what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation England.

Author : Richard A. Muller
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780801026188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics written by Richard A. Muller and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics examines how specific doctrines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries developed and their influence in shaping what we recognize today as the Protestant church. Richard Muller has undertaken this historical study to explain the development of the doctrine of this important period of church history and its ongoing relevance for the church. These four volumes, two of which are available for the first time, examine theological preliminaries, Scripture as the foundation of theology, God's existence, attributes, and nature, and the Trinity. Available individually or as a set, they comprise a significant contribution to scholarship and are essential reading for serious students of the Reformation.

Author : Richard A. Muller
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics written by Richard A. Muller and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study reevaluating the primary sources of the post-Reformation period to determine how consistent they are with the thinking of the Reformers on Scripture.