Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

Part I: The Protestant Emotions. Cultivating the Affections ; Despair and Salvation ; The Meaning of Mourning ; Desire ; Joy. -- Part II: The Protestant at Prayer. The Meaning of Prayer ; Answering Prayer ; The Practice of Prayer ; Speaking to God ; Prayer as Struggle. -- Part III: The Protestant an...

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Main Author: Ryrie, Alec 1971- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:Images and the senses in post-Reformation England (2015) (Morton, Adam, 1945 - 2020)
[Rezension von: Ryrie, Alec, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain] (2015) (LeTourneau, Mark S.)
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain. By Alec Ryrie. Pp. xi + 498 incl. 18 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45. 978 0 19 956572 6 (2014) (Heal, Felicity)
[Rezension von: Ryrie, Alec, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain] (2015) (Nelson, Byron)
Edition:1. Aufl.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / Reformation / Protestant / Everyday culture
Further subjects:B Reformation (Great Britain)
B Protestants (Great Britain) Social conditions 17th century
B 16th century / Great Britain / Protestantism / History Great Britain / Protestantism / History / 17th century Great Britain / Reformation Protestantism Reformation Religion Great Britain / Religion / History
B Protestants (Great Britain) History 16th century
B Protestants (Great Britain) Social conditions 16th century
B Protestants (Great Britain) History 17th century
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Summary:Part I: The Protestant Emotions. Cultivating the Affections ; Despair and Salvation ; The Meaning of Mourning ; Desire ; Joy. -- Part II: The Protestant at Prayer. The Meaning of Prayer ; Answering Prayer ; The Practice of Prayer ; Speaking to God ; Prayer as Struggle. -- Part III: The Protestant and the Word. Reading ; Writing. -- Part IV: The Protestant in Company. The Experience of Worship ; Prayer in the Household. -- Part V: The Protestant Life. The Meaning of Life ; The Stages of Life ; Conclusion. - "The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism. Beginning from the surprisingly urgent, multifaceted emotions of Protestantism, Ryrie explores practices of prayer, of family and public worship, and of reading and writing, tracking them through the life course from childhood through conversion and vocation to the deathbed. He examines what Protestant piety drew from its Catholic predecessors and contemporaries, and grounds that piety in material realities such as posture, food and tears. This perspective shows us what it meant to be Protestant in the British Reformations: a meeting of intensity (a religion which sought authentic feeling above all, and which dreaded hypocrisy and hard-heartedness) with dynamism (a progressive religion, relentlessly pursuing sanctification and dreading idleness). That combination, for good or ill, gave the Protestant experience its particular quality of restless, creative zeal. The Protestant devotional experience also shows us that this was a broad-based religion: for all the differences across time, between two countries, between men and women, and between puritans and conformists, this was recognisably a unified culture, in which common experiences and practices cut across supposed divides. Alec Ryrie shows us Protestantism, not as the preachers on all sides imagined it, but as it was really lived."--Publisher's website
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. [476] - 490
ISBN:0199565724