Author: Henry AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Idols and images
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An Arrow Against Idolatry
Author: Henry AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Idols and images
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An Arrow against Idolatrie ... By H. A. i.e. Henry Ainsworth
Author: H. A.An Arrow against the separation of the Brownists [in reply to H. Ainsworth]. Also an admonition touching Talmudique&Rabbinical allegations
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Author: John PAGET (Minister of the Gospel.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation
Author: Rhema HokamaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288655X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology and informal devotional practice, the Reformation introduced the idea that an individual's experience of devotion did not only entail feeling, but also thought. For early modern English people, bodily experience offered a means of corroborating and verifying devotional truth, making the invisible visible and knowable. This volume maintains that these religious developments gave early modern thinkers and poets a new epistemological framework for imagining and interpreting devotional intention and access. These Reformed models for devotion not only shaped how people experienced their encounters with God; the changing religious landscape of post-Reformation England also held profound implications for how English poets described sexual longing and access to earthly beloveds in the literary production of the period. In placing the works of English poets in conversation with devotional writers such as William Perkins, Samuel Hieron, Joseph Hall, and William Gouge, this book demonstrates how the English Calvinist tradition attributed epistemological potential to a wide range of ordinary experience, including sexual experience.
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin KilleenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135195542X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses biblical commentary, historiography, natural history, classical philology, artistic propriety and an encyclopaedic coverage of natural philosophy. This book traces the intellectual climate in which such disparate interests could cohere, locating Browne within the cultural and political matrices of his time. While Browne is most frequently remembered for the magnificence of his prose and his temperamental poise, qualities that knit well with the picture of a detached, apolitical figure, this work argues that Browne's significance emerges most fully in the context of contemporary battles over interpretative authority, within the intricately linked fields of biblical exegesis, scientific thought, and politics. Killeen's work centres on a reassessment of the scope and importance of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error with its mazy series of investigations and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.
A Warning Against Popery;
Author: James BUCHANAN (Minister of St. Stephen's Free Church, Edinburgh.)Publisher:
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Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Under the Hammer
Author: James SimpsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199591652
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclastic century between 1538 and 1643, which stands at the core of this book.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British MuseumBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing. Drawn Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures.
Author: Increase MatherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781609622169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a dancing master arrived in Boston in 1685 and offered lessons and classes for both sexes during times normally reserved for church meetings, the Puritan ministers went to court to suppress the practice. Increase Mather (1639-1723) took the leading part, writing and publishing this tract, which compiles arguments and precedents for the prohibition of "Gynecandrical Dancing, [i.e.] Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women ... together." These justifications were certainly shared with the court, which found the dancing master guilty, fined him £100, and allowed him to skip town. Mather's tract on dancing is an overwhelming compendium of sources and authorities: from the Bible, classical authors, Christian Church Fathers, medieval philosophers, and Reformed theologians both Continental and English. None of them, it appears, approved of mixed dancing-because it leads to adultery and worse. The vilest sins and the direst disasters lie only a short step from the dance floor. The Arrow is remarkable for two things (at least): for how much allusion and citation are packed into its brief 30 pages, and for how quickly it escalates the issue into life-or-death scenarios, all vividly painted to emphasize the mortal danger of men and women dancing together.