Persuasion and conversion : essays on religion, politics, and the public sphere in early modern England / By Torrance Kirby.
2013
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Title
Persuasion and conversion : essays on religion, politics, and the public sphere in early modern England / By Torrance Kirby.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Description
x, 229 pages ; 25 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; volume 166
Note
The early modern 'public sphere' emerges out of a popular 'culture of persuasion' fostered by the Protestant Reformation. By 1600, religious identity could no longer be assumed as 'given' within the hierarchical institutions and elaborate apparatus of late-medieval 'sacramental culture'. Reformers insisted on a sharp demarcation between the inner, subjective space of the individual and the external, public space of institutional life. Gradual displacement of sacramental culture was achieved by means of argument, textual interpretation, exhortation, reasoned opinion, and moral advice exercised through both pulpit and press. This alternative culture of persuasion presupposes a radically distinct notion of mediation. The common focus of the essays collected here is the dynamic interaction of religion and politics which provided a crucible for the emerging modern 'public sphere'.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Contents
Religion and propaganda: Thomas Cromwell's use of Antoine de Marcourt's Livre des Marchans
Public forum and forum of the conscience: John Calvin's theological groundwork of the modern public sphere
Lay supremacy: Tudor reform of the canon law of England
Public preaching: Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion
Public conversion: Richard Smyth's 'Retraction Sermon' at Paul's Cross, 1547
Political hermeneutics: John Jewel's 'Challenge Sermon' at Paul's Cross, 1559
Politics of religious identity: John Foxe, Richard Hooker and the nascent public sphere
Politics of persuasion: 'public' and 'private' in Hooker's apologetics
Public religion and public worship: the hermeneutics of common prayer.
Public forum and forum of the conscience: John Calvin's theological groundwork of the modern public sphere
Lay supremacy: Tudor reform of the canon law of England
Public preaching: Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion
Public conversion: Richard Smyth's 'Retraction Sermon' at Paul's Cross, 1547
Political hermeneutics: John Jewel's 'Challenge Sermon' at Paul's Cross, 1559
Politics of religious identity: John Foxe, Richard Hooker and the nascent public sphere
Politics of persuasion: 'public' and 'private' in Hooker's apologetics
Public religion and public worship: the hermeneutics of common prayer.
Series
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 166.
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands.
Item Details
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BR757 .K57 2013