The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism write by Deryck Lovegrove. This book was released on 2003-08-29. The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond. It considers how evangelicalism, as an anti-establishmentarian and profoundly individualistic movement, has allowed the traditionally powerless to become enterprising, vocal, and influential in the religious arena and in other areas of politics and culture.
Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World
Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World write by Kathleen Lynch. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a new view of the historical conditions and methods by which godly communities turned personal experience into an authorizing principle. A broad range of life-writing is explored, including Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae.
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I write by John Coffey. This book was released on 2020-05-29. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform the national Church from within. During the English Revolution (1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct identities as the four major denominational traditions of English Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant Dissent beyond England--in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting congregations, including their relations with the parish, their worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.
Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005
Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005 write by C. Gribben. This book was released on 2006-07-10. Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume documents the evolution and impact of one of the most enduring sources and symbols of sectarian conflict in Ireland - Protestant millennialism. The volume explores new sources and offers new conclusions, setting a new research agenda and emphasizing the vitality of religious discourse in Irish studies.
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions write by Mark A. Noll. This book was released on 2017. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast Anglo-world which also brought Anglophone Dissent to its apogee. Featuring contributions from a team of leading scholars, the volume illustrates that in most parts of the world the later nineteenth century was marked by a growing enthusiasm for the moral and educational activism of the state which plays against the idea of Dissent as a static, purely negative identity. This collection shows that Dissent was a political and constitutional identity, which was often only strong where a dominant Church of England existed to dissent against.
