Author: John Hacket
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
A Century of Sermons Upon Several Remarkable Subjects
Author: John Hacket
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Exchanges of Grace
Author: Natalie K. Watson
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334041678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A unique international collection of contributions in honour built around the three themes central to understanding the work of Ann Loades, Professor emerita of Durham University, a well known and well liked figure in contemporary western theology.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 0334041678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A unique international collection of contributions in honour built around the three themes central to understanding the work of Ann Loades, Professor emerita of Durham University, a well known and well liked figure in contemporary western theology.
Like Angels from a Cloud
Author: Horton Davies
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592449344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This is the very first study made in depth and detail of over forty Anglican preachers in the Golden Age of the English Pulpit. There have been individual studies of the sermons of Donne and Andrewes, but none of the metaphysical preachers as a whole. It is the aim of this book to introduce to the reader some of the less familiar preachers: men such as John Hacket and Ralph Brownrig, Calvinist preachers in the metaphysical style such as the Elizabethan Henry Smith (known as silver-tongued for his oratory), or Thomas Adams, who was styled the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians. These men, and others, were widely admired in their day and, in many cases, their contemporary popularity challenged that even of Donne. This study provides explanations for the popularity of the metaphysical style, and incidentally proves untenable the stereotype that all the metaphysical preachers were of the Arminian persuasion, since a fair proportion of the group were Calvinists who rejected the Puritan plain style in favor of a metaphysical mode of expression. One explanation of the popularity of this style for a period of some fifty years is that practically every metaphysical divine was also a poet, and that daring imagery, wit, and arcane knowledge were the chief differentia of this style of poetry. Furthermore, James I and Charles I were great admirers of wit and learning. They chose royal chaplains for these qualities: learning made them good apologists, and their wit kept the captive congregations at court intrigued. Equal attention is given to the biographies of the preachers, the themes of their sermons, and the techniques of preaching and sermon construction, with separate chapters on learning and eloquence, wit and imagery, and the uses to which they were put. The result is a full picture of the group of seventeenth-century divines who preached like angels from a cloud.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592449344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
This is the very first study made in depth and detail of over forty Anglican preachers in the Golden Age of the English Pulpit. There have been individual studies of the sermons of Donne and Andrewes, but none of the metaphysical preachers as a whole. It is the aim of this book to introduce to the reader some of the less familiar preachers: men such as John Hacket and Ralph Brownrig, Calvinist preachers in the metaphysical style such as the Elizabethan Henry Smith (known as silver-tongued for his oratory), or Thomas Adams, who was styled the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians. These men, and others, were widely admired in their day and, in many cases, their contemporary popularity challenged that even of Donne. This study provides explanations for the popularity of the metaphysical style, and incidentally proves untenable the stereotype that all the metaphysical preachers were of the Arminian persuasion, since a fair proportion of the group were Calvinists who rejected the Puritan plain style in favor of a metaphysical mode of expression. One explanation of the popularity of this style for a period of some fifty years is that practically every metaphysical divine was also a poet, and that daring imagery, wit, and arcane knowledge were the chief differentia of this style of poetry. Furthermore, James I and Charles I were great admirers of wit and learning. They chose royal chaplains for these qualities: learning made them good apologists, and their wit kept the captive congregations at court intrigued. Equal attention is given to the biographies of the preachers, the themes of their sermons, and the techniques of preaching and sermon construction, with separate chapters on learning and eloquence, wit and imagery, and the uses to which they were put. The result is a full picture of the group of seventeenth-century divines who preached like angels from a cloud.
Marginalia: Camden to Hutton
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691098890
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691098890
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Author: Robin Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131705718X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131705718X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period
Author: John R. Decker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000435490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000435490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.
The Political Bible in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.
A Catalogue of English and Foreign Theology
Author: John Leslie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Poets, Players, and Preachers
Author: Anne James
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442649372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442649372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.
A Catalogue of English and Foreign Theology ... Including the Entire Stock of the Late Mr. John Cochran, Bookseller and Recent Purchases from the Library of the Late Robert Southey ...
Author: John Leslie (Bookseller.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description