Providence In Early Modern England
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Providence In Early Modern England
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Author : Alexandra Walsham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
Providence In Early Modern England written by Alexandra Walsham and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This is an extensive study of the 16th and 17th century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. It seeks to shed light on the reception, character and broader cultural repercussions of the Reformation.
Providence In Early Modern England
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Author : Alexandra Walsham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Providence In Early Modern England written by Alexandra Walsham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with England categories.
Angels In The Early Modern World
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Angels In The Early Modern World written by Peter Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with History categories.
This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.
The Political Bible In Early Modern England
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Author : Kevin Killeen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Political Bible In Early Modern England written by Kevin Killeen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.
Naturalism In The Christian Imagination
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Author : Peter N. Jordan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Naturalism In The Christian Imagination written by Peter N. Jordan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Religion and science categories.
Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who - like the author of this book - recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of modern science, has a far richer relationship to religion than many have allowed. Peter Jordan now takes this recognition in fresh and exciting directions. Focusing on key thinkers in early modern England, who located causality within a divine and providential view of the cosmos, he shows how they were able to integrate ideas which today might be dichotomised as 'scientific' and 'religious'. His book makes a compelling contribution to current science and religion debates and their history.
An Age Of Wonders
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Author : William E. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
An Age Of Wonders written by William E. Burns and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky - people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. In An age of wonders, available in paperback for the first time, William E. Burns explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period. The story involves the establishment of early modern science, the shift from 'enthusiastic' to reasonable religion, and the fierce political combat between the Whigs and the Tories.This historical study is based on close readings of a variety of primary sources, both print and manuscript. Burns claims that prodigies lost their religious meaning and became subjects of scientific enquiry as a result of political struggles, first by the supporters of the restored monarchy and the Church of England against Protestant dissenters, and then by the Whig defenders of the Revolution of 1688 against the Tories and the Jacobites.By integrating religious and political history with the history of science, An age of wonders will be of great use to those working in the field of early modern history.
Naturalism In The Christian Imagination
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Author : Peter N. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Naturalism In The Christian Imagination written by Peter N. Jordan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with History categories.
A compelling contribution to 'science and religion' debates, showing how early modern thinkers reconciled naturalism with a providential world view.
Children Of Wrath Possession Prophecy And The Young In Early Modern England
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Author : Anna French
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Children Of Wrath Possession Prophecy And The Young In Early Modern England written by Anna French and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with History categories.
The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which children are documented: those of demonic possession and godly prophecy. Dr French argues that despite the fact that these occurrences were not typical childhood experiences, they provide us with a window through which to glimpse the world of early modern children. The work introduces its readers to the dualistic nature of early modern perceptions of their young - they were seen to be both close to devilish temptations and to God’s divine finger, as illustrated by published accounts of possession and prophecy. These cases reveal to us moments in which children could be granted authority or in which writers and publishers framed children in positions of spiritual agency. This can tell us much about how early modern society perceived, imagined and depicted their young, and helps us to revise the notion that early modern children’s lives, which were often fleeting, may have gone unregarded. Both contributing to, and informed by, some of the most recent historiographical directions taken by early modern history, this book engages with three key areas: the history of extreme spiritual experience such as demonic possession, the ’lived experience’ of early modern religion and the history of childhood. In this way, it offers the first scholarly exploration of the dialogue between these three areas of current and widespread historical interest which have, perhaps surprisingly, not yet been considered together.
Catholic Reformation In Protestant Britain
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Author : Alexandra Walsham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Catholic Reformation In Protestant Britain written by Alexandra Walsham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.
Religion Magic And The Origins Of Science In Early Modern England
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Author : John Henry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Religion Magic And The Origins Of Science In Early Modern England written by John Henry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Science categories.
In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy. Focussing on the scene in England, the articles provide detailed examinations of the religious motivations behind Roman Catholic efforts to develop a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the soul and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter. There are also important studies of animism in the beginnings of experimentalism, the role of occult qualities in the mechanical philosophy, and a new account of the decline of magic. As well as general surveys, the collection includes in depth studies of William Gilbert, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Francis Glisson, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton.