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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Post-Reformation"”.
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Becoming-Spiritual: Conceiving the Spiritual Family in Post-Reformation England
… I argue that the spiritual family in post-Reformation England was less a stable identity than a series of practices that bound early modern believers to the divine Father.</p> <p> I explore the spiritual family in post-Reformation England through an analysis of different sociological …
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'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post -Reformation England
… the sense of ceremonial obligation that informs post-Reformation literature as writers continue to represent death as a sacred, communal occasion in which religious affiliations are reaffirmed."
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Protestant Nominalism: An Analysis of Post-Reformation (1555-1662) Protestant Philosophical Theology
… theology I concentrate on theologians from the post-Reformation period, for the reason that the Protestant-nominalist critique and the responses to it to date are largely focused on first-generation Reformers, and therefore could be extended by further research into this later phase of …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… which aided and abetted both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Restoration. This new kind of spirituality looked ‘inwards’, making much of the examination of conscience as part of the Christian salvific journey. The Council of Trent re-affirmed the sacramental nature of the Catholic …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
<p>This dissertation contributes to the current critical discourse in Early Modern English Studies on the conceptions and literary representations of national and racial identity in 16th- and 17th-century England. Central to this discourse is an examination of how the English defined themselves in …
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The theology of freedom in Paradise Lost
… study I situate Paradise Lost within its complex post-Reformation context, and I argue that its theology is more variegated and more elusive than either straightforwardly orthodox or straightforwardly heretical readings have tended to suggest. This study pursues the theological portrayal of …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
This thesis is about making in post-Reformation England. Roughly covering the period between 1550 and 1600, it explores the English cultural contexts of Protestant and Calvinist discourses in the sixteenth century. But equally, it is a thesis about the *meaning* of making. Scholarship abounds on …
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Founts of Knowledge: An Archaeological Ethnography of Four Sacred Wellsprings in Glamorgan, Wales
… and variety of their possible use periods, post-Reformation erosion, and an ambiguous archaeological record make many wellsprings complex subjects (Roberts, 2011; Seaman, 2020). In an attempt to account for this complexity, this study synthesises archaeological and ethnographic approaches to …
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God’s Imposition: The Centrality of Vocation in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… (1558–1602) was a significant figure in the post-Reformation Church of England. Contemporary scholars call him the “father of Puritanism” for his pursuit of spiritual reform through preaching and teaching. As a theologian, he is known for his important contribution to the doctrine of …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… of English women religious founded after the Reformation on the other side of the Channel from a new perspective. In echoes of contemporary Protestant propaganda, debates about nuns remain too often framed by a discourse around themes such as passivity or the idea of forced vocations. The mere …
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‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
… examines how the dislocation of old beliefs in post-Reformation England affected perceptions of the soul in the work of Donne and Shakespeare. The introduction, using Augustinian discourses on the tri-partite soul, explores how the soul is imagined in post-Reformation England. Current debates on …
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Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic
… who arrived in Amsterdam in the early 1600s. In post-Reformation Netherlands, they encountered something new, Freedom of Conscience, a fundamental tenet inscribed in law by the new Dutch Republic’s Treaty of Utrecht (1579). This freedom enabled the Iberian community to rediscover its ancestral …
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Robert Bruce of Kinnaird and the Resilience of Presbyterianism in Scotland: 1610–1637.
… the importance of men like Robert Bruce in Reformation and post-Reformation history.
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
Deviant Bodies explores how post-Reformation anxieties about institutional politics, civic morality, and national boundaries inform--and are informed by--early modern discourses on sexual deviance. Focusing on works by John Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
… it was used to refer to texts and writing in the post-Reformation period. These changes were in part driven by religious change wrought by the Reformation. The decline of purgatory and traditional religion and the rise of Protestant predestinarian and providential belief shifted the purpose of …
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The Active Obedience of Jesus Christ
… the doctrine. Special attention is given to the Reformation and Post-Reformation eras, during which the doctrine received its primary development. Chapter 3 examines God's original arrangement with Adam. This chapter argues that God established a covenant with Adam, and that had Adam obeyed …
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
… religion in England of this period as ‘post-Reformation’ rather than necessarily Protestant, although it remains a challenge to discover the beliefs of those who did not write for themselves. Cheap print publications provide one such source as they appear to have reached a wide …
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"Scripture Is Both the Glosse and the Text": Biblical Interpretation and Its Implementation in the Works of William Perkins
… Word and the only adequate foundation for the reformation he sought for individuals, the church, and society. The fact that Scripture was God’s Word determined his hermeneutic—Scripture interprets itself. Though not reflected in most Perkinsian scholarship, Perkins consistently applied this …
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Collaboration In Anti-Corruption Action: Building A Collaborative Governance Model In Tackling Corruption In Indonesia
… tackle corruption from the Old Order era to the Post-Reformation era. However, these efforts have not been effectively implemented. Indonesia’s ACA, namely the Corruption Eradication Commission/KPK, has been mandated to contribute to tackling corruption, which provides collaboration …
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Catholic schools in Scotland: mapping the contemporary debate and their continued existence in the 21st century
… Church and the wider Catholic community – a post-Reformation Catholic community that has a variety of national–cultural expressions but, ultimately, has strongest roots in the critical mass of immigrants who were part of the Irish Famine Diaspora. This Scottish-Irish Catholic Church and …
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