A Strange Sadness: Margaret Baxter on the Trauma of Conversion
This article seeks to recover a familiar but unappreciated female voice from English Puritanism of the seventeenth century, that of Margaret Baxter. Various challenges to such recovery are examined, most notably the nature of her relationship to her pastor and husband, Richard. Extant literature fro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Feminist theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-152 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDD Protestant Church RA Practical theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Practical Theology
B reformed women B Puritanism B Margaret Baxter B Richard Baxter |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to recover a familiar but unappreciated female voice from English Puritanism of the seventeenth century, that of Margaret Baxter. Various challenges to such recovery are examined, most notably the nature of her relationship to her pastor and husband, Richard. Extant literature from Margaret’s hand focuses on the events surrounding her conversion and life-threatening illness shortly thereafter. The present analysis of these texts and their circumstances concludes that Margaret was a faithful but critical heir of the practical theology of her day, and that in her lived expression of that tradition one observes the enduring scars of the trauma of her conversion. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09667350211055458 |
