Author: Richard ArnaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
A Critical Commentary on Such Books of the Apocrypha, as are Appointed to be Read in Churches ...
Author: Richard ArnaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Historical Essays
Author: Augustin ThierryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Apocryphal Apocalypse
Author: Alastair HamiltonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191541788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation. The Book owed its initial success to Hebraists such as Pico della Mirandola and Bibliander. It was used to account for the origins of Jewish Kabbalah and to prophesy political and religious events: the fall of the Ottoman empire, or the destruction of the papacy. Anabaptists, dissident Protestants of various persuasions, Rosicrucians and Paracelsians consulted it not only as a work of prophecy but, it is argued, as an emblem of dissent, rejected by the official Churches. At the same time more sober scholars, both Protestants and Catholics, scrutinized 2 Esdras with greater objectivity, endeavouring to date it correctly and establish its authorship. This study also investigates the interaction between their views and those of the Book's enthusiastic supporters.
An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review
Author: The Methodist Quarterly Review
Author: The people's dictionary of the Bible [by J.R. Beard].
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Author: John Relly BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
British Librarian; Or, Book-collector's Guide ...
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834
Author: Kate GibsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192867245
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's rights to state support. Using the words of illegitimate individuals and their families preserved in letters, diaries, poor relief, and court documents, this study reveals the impact of illegitimacy across the life cycle. How did illegitimacy affect children's early years, and their relationships with parents, siblings, and wider family as they grew up? Did illegitimacy limit education, occupation, or marriage chances? What were individuals' experiences of shame and stigma, and how did being illegitimate affect their sense of identity? Historian Kate Gibson investigates the circumstances that governed families' responses, from love and pragmatic acceptance, to secrecy and exclusion. In a major reframing of assumptions that illegitimacy was experienced only among the poor, this volume tells the stories of individuals from across the socio-economic scale, including children of royalty, physicians and lawyers, servants and agricultural labourers. It demonstrates that the stigma of illegitimacy operated along a spectrum, varying according to the type of parental relationship, the child's race, gender, and socio-economic status. Financial resources and the class-based ideals of parenthood or family life had a significant impact on how families reacted to illegitimacy. Class became more important over the eighteenth century, under the influence of Enlightenment ideals of tolerance, sensibility, and redemption. The child of sin was now recast as a pitiable object of charity, but this applied only to those who could fit narrow parameters of genteel tragedy. This vivid investigation of the meaning of illegitimacy gets to the heart of powerful inequalities in families, communities, and the state.
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