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

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dunan-Page, Anne. (Editor), Prunier, Clotilde. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des iděs, 209
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Science > History.
Religion (General).
Philosophy.
History of Philosophy.
Religious Studies.
History of Science.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5216-0
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • <U+0018>For the Greater Glory<U+0019>: Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation,1598-1626, D. Finnegan
  • James <U+0018>III and VIII<U+0019> and Catholic Kingship, 1702-1718, D. Szechi
  • Every time I receive a Letter from you it gives me new vigour<U+0019>: 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<U+0019>s doubts concerning the soul, A. Thomson
  • Index.

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