Author: William WhistonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
An Account of the Convocation's Proceedings with Relation to Mr. Whiston
Author: William WhistonThe Christian Monitors
Author: Brent S. SirotaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire—all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence.”
The Importance of the Reign of Queen Anne in English Church History
Author: Frederick William WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Secular Chains
Author: Philip ConnellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019107831X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century. Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.
Catalogue of Stirling's and Glasgow Library
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Stirling's LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate
Author: Dr. Williams's LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street ...
Author: Remarks on Mr. Whiston's account of the Convocation's proceedings, with relation to himself
Author: Michael MaittaireP-Z. Single engravings. Manuscripts
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description