Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dunan-Page, Anne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Prunier, Clotilde (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 209
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Religion.; History.; History of Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.; History of Science.

The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as ques...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Religion and letter writing, 1550-1800, G. Schneider
• Part I Protestant Identities
• Scribal Networks and sustainers in Protestant martyrology, M. Greengrass
• Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend, R. Barbour
• Writing authority in the Interregnum: The pastoral letters of Richard Baxter, A. Searle
• Letters and records of the dissenting congregations: David Crosley,Cripplegate and Baptist Church life, A. Dunan-Page
• Part II Representations of British Catholicism
• ‘For the Greater Glory’: Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation,1598-1626, D. Finnegan
• James ‘III and VIII’ and Catholic Kingship, 1702-1718, D. Szechi
• Every time I receive a Letter from you it gives me new vigour’: The correspondence of Scalan masters, 1762-1783, C. Prunier
• Part III Religion, Science and Philosophy
• Debating the faith: Damaris Masham (1658-1708) and religious controversy, S. Hutton
• Dining out in the Republic of Letters: The rhetoric of scientific correspondence, C. Preston
• Evangelical Calvinists versus the Hutcheson Circle: Debating the faith in Scotland, 1738-1739, J. Moore
• Questioning church doctrine in private correspondence in the eighteenth century: Jean Bouhier’s doubts concerning the soul, A. Thomson
• Index.