Author: Robert SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Twelve Sermons preached upon several Occasions. ... The second edition. Vol. I.
Author: Robert SouthTwelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and Upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
State of Nature Or Eden?
Author: Helen ThorntonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580461964
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
State of Nature or Eden? Thomas Hobbes and his Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings aims to explain how Hobbes's state of nature was understood by a contemporary readership, whose most important reference point for such a condition was the original condition of human beings at the creation, in other words in Eden. The book uses ideas about how readers brought their own reading of other texts to any reading, that reading is affected by the context in which the reader reads, and that the Bible was the model for all reading in the early modern period. It combines these ideas with the primary evidence of the contemporary critical reaction to Hobbes, to reconstruct how Hobbes's state of nature was read by his contemporaries. The book argues that what determined how Hobbes's seventeenth century readers responded to his description of the state of nature were their views on the effects of the Fall. Hobbes's contemporary critics, the majority of whom were Aristotelians and Arminians, thought that the Fall had corrupted human nature, although not to the extent implied by Hobbes's description. Further, they wanted to look at human beings as they should have been, or ought to be. Hobbes, on the other hand, wanted to look at human beings as they were, and in doing so was closer to Augustinian, Lutheran and Reformed interpretations, which argued that nature had been inverted by the Fall. For those of Hobbes's contemporaries who shared these theological assumptions, there were important parallels to be seen between Hobbes's account and that of scripture, although on some points his description could have been seen as a subversion of scripture. The book also demonstrates that Hobbes was working within the Protestant tradition, as well as showing how he used different aspects of this tradition. Helen Thornton is an Independent Scholar. She completed her PhD at the University of Hull.
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions
Author: Robert SouthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368878638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description