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• Introduction
• 1. The background: Hanmer's origins and the Elizabethan Church
• 2. The years at Oxford, c. 1564-1581
• 3. Champion of the Established Church?
• 4. Vicar in London, c. 1581-1590
• 5. Service in Ireland c. 1593-1604
• Conclusion.
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This is the first book-length study of the fascinating life of the clergyman and scholar of Welsh descent Meredith Hanmer (c.1545-1604). Hanmer became involved in the key scholarly controversies of his day, from the place of the Elizabethan Church in Christian history to the role of the 1581 Jesuit mission to England led by Edmund Campion and Robert Persons. As an army preacher in Ireland during the Nine Years War, Hanmer campaigned with the most acclaimed soldiers of his day. He nurtured connections with prominent intellectuals of his time and with the key figures of colonial government. His own career as a clergyman was colourful, involving bitter disputes with his parishioners and recurring aspersions on his character. Surprisingly, no study to date has centred on this intriguing character. The surviving evidence for Hanmer's life and activities is unusually rich, comprising his published writings and a large body of under-exploited manuscript material. Drawing extensively on archival evidence scattered across a wide number of repositories, Dr. Andreani's book contextualises Hanmer's clerical activities and wide-ranging scholarship, elucidates his previously little understood career, and thus enriches our understanding of life, politics, and scholarship in the Elizabethan church.
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The varied career of Adam Easton (c. 1330-1397) led him from Norwich Cathedral Priory to Oxford, Avignon and Rome. Not only a monk of the Benedictine Order, he was also a scholar, theologian, diplomat and cardinal, and his work reflects the breadth of this multifaceted background. This volume presents recent research on Easton's oeuvre, his diplomacy, and the books that accompanied him on his travels. Amongst the works addressed in this volume are Easton's 'Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis', his 'Defensorium S. Birgittae' and his 'Office for the Feast of the Visitation'. Further new evidence is also offered on his testimony during the Great Schism, on the dating of his copy of 'De pauperie Salvatoris', while two reassessments are made of his likeness, including his sepulchral monument at S. Cecilia in Rome and the Lutterwork wall painting. Finally, a catalogue of Easton's important manuscript collection is also provided.

• Volume
• 1. 1860-1914

"The full significance of Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938), the wealthy squire of Howbury Hall, is known to few, yet he was one of the founding fathers of the Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition in Britain, and his impact and legacy stretch far beyond British shores to North America, the Far East and elsewhere. In Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist John Usher comprehensively connects Polhill's early life and former experiences as an Evangelical Anglican missionary in China, a member of the Cambridge Seven, with his time as a pioneer of early Pentecostalism, and in doing so reveals a much more richly contoured and multifaceted picture of the development of early Pentecostalism than previously achieved"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1 "Scholarly and Strangely Courteous Controversies": Firmin's Ecclesiastical Identity in the 1640s and 1650s
• 1 Firmin's Experience to 1651
• 2 Firmin's "Interpendency" in the Early 1650s
• 3 Growing Presbyterian Identity in the Later 1650s
• 4 Sects, Quakers, and the Power of the Magistrate
• 5 Conclusion
• 2 "Nor Yet a New-Style Episcopalian": Firmin's Writings in the Early 1660s
• 1 Laudians, Moderates, and the Problem of Re-Ordination
• 2 Gifted Ministers and the Imposition of the Liturgy
• 3 The Solemn League and Covenant, Primitive Episcopacy, and Tyrannical Prelacy
• 4 Conclusion
• 3 "Truth and the Lambs of God Must be Regarded": Firmin on Effectual Calling, Faith, and Assurance
• 1 The Real Christian in Context
• 2 Preparation for Salvation: against Shepard and Hooker
• 3 Defining Faith: for and against the Rogers and Perkins
• 4 Effectual Calling, Self-Love, and the Glory of Go
• 5 Imposing Duties on a "Christian Constituted"
• 6 Conclusion
• 4 "What Episcopacy Is It You Mean?" Conscience, Schism, Anti-Popery, and the Edward Stillingfleet Debate
• 1 Erastians and Latitudinarians against Dissenting Schismatics in the 1670s and 1680s
• 2 The Latitudinarians on the Seperation and Schism of Dissenters
• 3 Stillingfleet's Polemics in the 1680s
• 4 Dissenting Replies to Stillingfleet and Anglican Polemics
• 5 Firmin's Position vis-a-vis Presbyterian Dissent
• 6 Conclusion
• 5 "Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm'd": Firmin, Federalists, and Anabaptists in the 1670s and 1680s
• 1 Henry Danvers, Thomas Grantham, and the Paedobaptist/Anti-Paedobaptist Debate
• 2 Of Quakerism, Popery, and the Slippery Slope
• 3 Exegetical and Hermeneutical Disputes
• 4 The Matter and Form of Baptism
• 5 Pastoral Concerns
• 6 Conclusion
• 6 "The Gospel is a Law": Firmin, Free Grace, and Justification in 1690s Context
• 1 The Antinomian Conflict, 1690-1698 1.1Antinomianism and Polemics 1.2Antinomianism and Neonomianism in the Polemics of the 1690s 1.3Free Grace and Justification, 1690-1694 1.4Richard Davis, Antinomianism, and the Fragmentation of the Happy Union 1.5Firmin on Justification and Assurance 1.6Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In Giles Firmin and the Transatlantic Puritan Tradition, Jonathan Warren Pagan offers an intellectual biography of Giles Firmin (1613/14-1697), who lived in both Old and New England and lived through many of the transitions of international puritanism in the seventeenth century. By contextualizing Firmin in his intellectual milieu, Warren Pagan also offers a unique vantage on the transition of puritanism to Dissent in late Stuart England, surveying changing approaches to ecclesiology, pastoral theology, and the ordo salutis among the godly during the Restoration through Firmin's writings.
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John Habgood (1927-2019) was Archbishop of York from 1983-1995, and prior to that had served ten years as Bishop of Durham. His ability to mediate and solve what seemed impossible problems, both in the Church and modern society, is legendary. However, his formidable intellect and shy manner could make him seem a distant, enigmatic figure . This biography, written at Lord Habgood's request and with his full cooperation while alive, is warm, witty and affectionate. Nonetheless, as its title implies, it is a truthful portrayal of the man he was - guileless, flawed, just. The authorized biography of John Habgood by one of the people who knew him best, that 'ecclesiastical version of Alan Bennett', Bishop David Wilbourne.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The Life of Alexander Knox
• 2 Alexander Knox and Anglicanism
• 3 Alexander Knox and John Wesley
• 4 Alexander Knox and the Christian Platonic Tradition
• 5 Alexander Knox in the Context of his Times: Heart Religion, the Enlightenment and Romanticism
• 6 The Characteristics of Alexander Knox's Theology
• 7 Alexander Knox's Theological Methodology
• 8 Alexander Knox's Theology (I): God and Humanity-- Christ and the Holy Spirit
• 9 Alexander Knox's Theology (II): Justification and Perfection
• 10 Alexander Knox's Theology (III): Baptism and the Eucharist
• 11 Alexander Knox's Theology (IV): Ecclesiology
• 12 Alexander Knox's Theology (V): Providence and Predestination
• 13 Alexander Knox's Influence and His Relationship with the Tractarians
• Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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In his The Life and Theology of Alexander Knox, David McCready highlights one of the most important figures in the history of Anglicanism. A disciple of John Wesley, Knox presents his mentor as a representative of the Neo-Platonic tradition within Anglicanism, a tradition that Knox himself also exemplifies. Knox also significantly impacted John Henry Newman and the Tractarians. But Alexander Knox is an important theologian in his own right, one who engaged substantially with the main intellectual currents of his day, namely those stemming from the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Meshing Knox's theological teaching on various topics with details of his life, this book offers a fascinating portrait of a man who, in the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'changed the minds, and, with them, the acts of thousands.'.
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• Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
• Translator's Note
• Note on the Editing of the Diaries
• Introduction to the English Edition
• Todd M. Endelman
• INTRODUCTION
• I. A Brief History of Ba'alei Shem
• II. A Biography of Samuel Falk
• III. Falk's Activities According to the Diary of Zevi Hirsch
• IV. Samuel Falk as Seen by Jacob Emden
• V. Samuel Falk and the Freemasons
• VI. The Diaries and Their Research
• THE DIARIES
• The Diary of Zevi Hirsch of Kalisz
• The Diary of Samuel Falk
• APPENDICES
• A. People Featuring Prominently in the Diaries
• B. Falk's Dreams
• C. The Letter of Sussman Shesnowzi to His Son
• D. The Letter of Jacob Emden
• E. Falk's Library
• F. Falk's Will
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba'al Shem of London, has piqued the curiosity of scholars for enerations. Eighteenth-century London was fascinated by Jews, and as a miracle-worker and adventurer, well connected and well read, Falk had much to offer. Interest in the man was further aroused by rumours of his dealings with European aristocrats and other famous characters, as well as with scholars, Freemasons, and Shabbateans, but evidence was scanty. Michal Oron has now brought together all the known source material on the man, and her detailed annotations of his diary and that of his assistant give us rich insights into his activities over several years. We learn of his meetings and his travels; his finances; his disputes, his dreams, and his remedies; and lists of his books. We see London's social life and commerce, its landed gentry and its prisons, and what people ate, wore, and possessed. The burgeoning Jewish community of London and its religious practices, as well as its communal divisiveness, is depicted especially colourfully. The scholarly introductions by Oron and by Todd Endelman and the informative appendices help contextualize the diaries and offer an intriguing glimpse of Jewish involvement in little-known aspects of London life at the threshold of the modern era.
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Archbishop of Canterbury from 1272 until his death in 1279, the Dominican friar Robert Kildwardby has long been known primarily for his participation in the Oxford Prohibitions of 1277, but his contributions spread far wider. A central figure in the Late Middle Ages, Kilwardby was one of the earliest commentators of the work of Aristotle, as well as an unwavering proponent of Augustinian thought and a believer of the plurality of forms. Although he was a prominent thinker of the time, key areas of his philosophical thought remain unexamined in contemporary scholarship. Jose Filipe Silva here offers the first book-length analysis of Kilwardby's full body of work, which is essential in understanding both the reception of Aristotle in the Latin West and the developments of later medieval philosophy. Beginning with his early philosophical commitments, Silva tracks Kilwardby's life and academic thought, including his theories on knowledge, moral happiness, and the nature of the soul, along with his attempts to reconcile Augustinian and Aristotelian thought. Ultimately, Robert Kilwardby offers a comprehensive overview of an unsung scholar, solidifying his philosophical legacy as one of the most influential authors of the Late Middle Ages.
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• Family Tree
• Part One
• Dedication
• The Shadow
• In Exile with the Children of Israel
• O My Father
• Meeting
• In the Family Closet
• Part Two
• Infancy (Our Doris Plays Dress Up)
• School (Our Ivy Is Lost)
• At Home (Our Barbara Cleans and Our Hannah Listens)
• Food
• Clothing (Our Frances Sews)
• Our Violet Is Born and Our Mona Sees the Elephant
• Our Nellie
• Around East and West Bowling
• Clogs and Shawls
• Church
• Facts of Life and Death
• Part Three
• Wuthering Heights
• Nurse Whitaker
• Letters Home
• Mona and the Devil
• Emulate Her Virtues
• The End.

In this revealing family memoir, best-selling author Ann Chamberlin explores the history of her Mormon grandmother Frances Lyda and her seven sisters who grew up desperately poor in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early years of the twentieth century. Chamberlin's narrative follows these eight daughters of Mary Jane Jones and Ralph Robinson Whitaker, a remarkably gifted yet poor and blind piano tuner. Most of the girls were forced by necessity to abandon school at age twelve and find work in terrible conditions at a local factory. When their mother converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1901, she became the backbone of the Mormon community in Yorkshire. Her daughters followed their mother into her faith, while navigating their own, sometimes tragic, ways into adulthood, family, and the world beyond industrial England. Though they were exploited and undereducated, the girls maintained a steadfast belief in a brighter future for the Mormon faithful, a mindSet that, despite their many differences, forged an unshakable togetherness between them. All gifted and strong individuals in their own right, many of the Whitaker sisters overcame long odds and incredible hardships to carry on and prosper in Salt Lake City. Chamberlin interviewed her grandmother and six of her surviving great-aunts for Clogs and Shawls, the relatives who had made their way to Mormon Zion. She weaves novelistic passages with their first-person narratives to create a singular work of oral immigrant family history that is both lively and revealing.
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• The shadow
• In exile with the children of Israel
• O my Father
• Meeting
• In the family closet
• Childhood (our Doris dresses up)
• School (our Ivy is lost)
• Food
• Clothing (our Frances sews)
• Our Violet is Born and our Mona Sees the elephant
• Our Nellie
• Around East and West Bowling
• Clogs and shawls
• Church
• Facts of life and death
• Wuthering heights
• Nurse Whitaker
• Letters home
• Mona and the devil emulate her virtues

In this revealing family memoir, best-selling author Ann Chamberlin explores the history of her Mormon grandmother Frances Lyda and her seven sisters who grew up desperately poor in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early years of the twentieth century. Chamberlin's narrative follows these eight daughters of Mary Jane Jones and Ralph Robinson Whitaker, a remarkably gifted yet poor and blind piano tuner. Most of the girls were forced by necessity to abandon school at age twelve and find work in terrible conditions at a local factory. When their mother converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1901, she became the backbone of the Mormon community in Yorkshire. Her daughters followed their mother into her faith, while navigating their own, sometimes tragic, ways into adulthood, family, and the world beyond industrial England. Though they were exploited and undereducated, the girls maintained a steadfast belief in a brighter future for the Mormon faithful, a mindSet that, despite their many differences, forged an unshakable togetherness between them. All gifted and strong individuals in their own right, many of the Whitaker sisters overcame long odds and incredible hardships to carry on and prosper in Salt Lake City. Chamberlin interviewed her grandmother and six of her surviving great-aunts for Clogs and Shawls, the relatives who had made their way to Mormon Zion. She weaves novelistic passages with their first-person narratives to create a singular work of oral immigrant family history that is both lively and revealing.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Finding Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
• 1. Compiling Catherine: The Visionary Woman, Stephen Maconi, and the Carthusian Audience
• 2. William Flete, English Spirituality, and Catherine of Siena
• 3. Catherine Excerpted: Reading the Miscellany
• 4. The Orcherd of Syon: How to Read in the Convent
• 5. Catherine in Print: Lay Audiences and Reading Hagiography
• Conclusion - Reforming Reading: Catherine of Siena in an Age of Reform
• Appendix A: Literary Ancestry Chart Appendix B: Catherine Texts in England
• Notes Bibliography Index .
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Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Finding Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
• 1. Compiling Catherine: The Visionary Woman, Stephen Maconi, and the Carthusian Audience
• 2. William Flete, English Spirituality, and Catherine of Siena
• 3. Catherine Excerpted: Reading the Miscellany
• 4. The Orcherd of Syon: How to Read in the Convent
• 5. Catherine in Print: Lay Audiences and Reading Hagiography
• Conclusion - Reforming Reading: Catherine of Siena in an Age of Reform
• Appendix A: Literary Ancestry Chart Appendix B: Catherine Texts in England
• Notes Bibliography Index .
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Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
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• 1: Oxford
• 2: The Movement
• 3: The Via Media
• 4: Doubts
• 5: Crisis
• 6: Development
• 7: From Oxford to Rome
• 8: Controversy and Satire
• 9: The Idea of a University
• 10: The Catholic University of Ireland
• 11: Oratory and University
• 12: The Idea and the Laity
• 13: The Years of Silence
• 14: Apologia
• 15: Return to Oxford?
• 16: The Justification of Religious Belief
• 17: Papal Infallibility
• 18: Oxford and Rome Again.
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This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts: the legendary sadness and sensitivity are placed in their proper perspective by being set against his no less striking qualities of exuberance, humour, and toughness. This book attempts to do justice to the fullness of Newman's achievement and genius: the Victorian 'prophet' or 'sage', who ranks among the major English prose writers; the dominating religious figure of the nineteenth century, who can now be recognised as the forerunner of the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement; and finally, the universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time.
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本书以英国牛津大学博得礼图书馆藏'拉夫雷斯档案'中的洛克'中国笔记'手稿为突破口和核心内容,从不同角度整理,呈现和分析'中国笔记'的时代背景,结构内容,认识基础和知识来源,力图将这一全新史料完整准确地呈现在世界面前.洛克对中国的关注并不局限于'人类理解论'和'政府论'中的只言片语.洛克不仅多次在英国寻访中国人的踪迹,而且一直积极向东印度公司驻中国的亲友了解关于中国的第 一手信息,更重要的是,洛克收藏和阅读了大量关于中国的书籍,并于晚年写下了系统研究中国人哲学,信仰和礼仪问题的'中国笔记'.本书是世界范围内专门研究洛克'中国观'的首次尝试,填补了洛克思想研究和中西文化交流史研究的双重空白,具有较高的历史和文献价值.

• Life and ministry / Sinclair B. Ferguson
• Pursuit of godliness / Geoffrey Thomas
• The greatest case of conscience / Joel R. Beeke
• The wholesome doctrine of faith and love / Stephen Yuille
• The primacy of scripture, preaching, and piety / Greg Salazar.

"Contains essays on the life, theology, and legacy of William Perkins"-- Provided by publisher.

New Statesman's Best Books of the Year, 2018 Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018 We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem to be doing just fine? For Christina Patterson, it was her job as a journalist that kept her going through the ups and downs of life. And then she lost that, too. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by self-help books, she decided to do the kind of interviews she had never done before. The resulting conversations are surprising, touching and often funny. There's Ken, the first person to be publicly fired from a FTSE-100 board. There's Winston, who fell through a ceiling onto a purple coffin. There's Louise, whose baby was seriously ill, but who still worried about being fat. And through it all, there's Christina, eating far too many crisps as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life. The Art of Not Falling Apart is a joyous, moving and sometimes shockingly honest celebration of life as an adventure, one where you ditch your expectations, raise a glass and prepare for a rocky ride.
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