Lucy Bending
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187172
- eISBN:
- 9780191674648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187172.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter discusses Christian understanding of pain. For Christian theologians two kinds of pain were of importance: the pains of the here and now ...
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This chapter discusses Christian understanding of pain. For Christian theologians two kinds of pain were of importance: the pains of the here and now and the doctrinally sanctioned pains of eternal damnation. Following the widespread overthrow of belief in the physical pains of hell, came a change in the perception of physical pain, both among the clergy and the laity.Less
This chapter discusses Christian understanding of pain. For Christian theologians two kinds of pain were of importance: the pains of the here and now and the doctrinally sanctioned pains of eternal damnation. Following the widespread overthrow of belief in the physical pains of hell, came a change in the perception of physical pain, both among the clergy and the laity.
Fiona Somerset
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452819
- eISBN:
- 9780801470998
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452819.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This introductory chapter presents the background of the study on lollardy animating this book. After a brief discussion of the history of lollardy the chapter turns to a more in-depth overview of ...
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This introductory chapter presents the background of the study on lollardy animating this book. After a brief discussion of the history of lollardy the chapter turns to a more in-depth overview of the available textual evidence on lollardy—the writings influenced by John Wyclif, and similar—and how previous scholars have interpreted this evidence so far, especially in the midst of controversy surrounding the movement. This chapter also sets forth the research method undertaken for an investigation into lollard affiliations and clarifies pertinent terminologies and preconceptions as to what this book’s overall study will entail. In so doing the chapter aims to equip readers with an eye for subtlety in examining religious writings and in making their own decisions on their affiliations with lollardy.Less
This introductory chapter presents the background of the study on lollardy animating this book. After a brief discussion of the history of lollardy the chapter turns to a more in-depth overview of the available textual evidence on lollardy—the writings influenced by John Wyclif, and similar—and how previous scholars have interpreted this evidence so far, especially in the midst of controversy surrounding the movement. This chapter also sets forth the research method undertaken for an investigation into lollard affiliations and clarifies pertinent terminologies and preconceptions as to what this book’s overall study will entail. In so doing the chapter aims to equip readers with an eye for subtlety in examining religious writings and in making their own decisions on their affiliations with lollardy.
Alan C. Clifford
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198261957
- eISBN:
- 9780191682254
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198261957.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, History of Christianity
This chapter discusses the significance, the life, and the contributions of Richard Baxter. Baxter was ‘the outstanding figure among ejected ministers’. He is justly famous for his energetic pastoral ...
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This chapter discusses the significance, the life, and the contributions of Richard Baxter. Baxter was ‘the outstanding figure among ejected ministers’. He is justly famous for his energetic pastoral ministry at Kidderminster from 1641 to 1660. He was equally noted for his distinctive theological and ecclasiastical position, in which he advocated the ‘middle way’ between the extremes of the day. A prophet of ecumenical comprehension, he was less successful in ending the Protestant fragmentation of his day than in his evangelistic and pastoral activities. However, his ‘pacific vision’ has earned him just renown, even if his methods were deficient in realism and common sense.Less
This chapter discusses the significance, the life, and the contributions of Richard Baxter. Baxter was ‘the outstanding figure among ejected ministers’. He is justly famous for his energetic pastoral ministry at Kidderminster from 1641 to 1660. He was equally noted for his distinctive theological and ecclasiastical position, in which he advocated the ‘middle way’ between the extremes of the day. A prophet of ecumenical comprehension, he was less successful in ending the Protestant fragmentation of his day than in his evangelistic and pastoral activities. However, his ‘pacific vision’ has earned him just renown, even if his methods were deficient in realism and common sense.
David Neal Greenwood
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501755477
- eISBN:
- 9781501755491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501755477.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
This chapter reviews Julian's true religious and philosophical commitment. It considers Julian's religious writings as employed on behalf of his pragmatic political goals, showing two competing ...
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This chapter reviews Julian's true religious and philosophical commitment. It considers Julian's religious writings as employed on behalf of his pragmatic political goals, showing two competing religious metanarratives. The chapter then unfolds how Julian began laying a foundation of mockery of Christianity, Christ, and his earthly counterpart Constantine in the Symposium, also referred to in some manuscripts as the Kronia and later as the Saturnalia or Caesares. In it, the emperor combined searing criticism of Constantine and his sons with biting humor, rendering the work attractive even for those without significant background in the political history of the time. The chapter ultimately explains Marcus Aurelius's writings and its connection to the Symposium.Less
This chapter reviews Julian's true religious and philosophical commitment. It considers Julian's religious writings as employed on behalf of his pragmatic political goals, showing two competing religious metanarratives. The chapter then unfolds how Julian began laying a foundation of mockery of Christianity, Christ, and his earthly counterpart Constantine in the Symposium, also referred to in some manuscripts as the Kronia and later as the Saturnalia or Caesares. In it, the emperor combined searing criticism of Constantine and his sons with biting humor, rendering the work attractive even for those without significant background in the political history of the time. The chapter ultimately explains Marcus Aurelius's writings and its connection to the Symposium.
Penelope Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748655823
- eISBN:
- 9780748676620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655823.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Lucy Hutchinson uses the language of betrayal-oriented friendship to preserve both her husband's republican reputation and her own. Later readers, seeing the Hutchinsons' marriage through the lens of ...
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Lucy Hutchinson uses the language of betrayal-oriented friendship to preserve both her husband's republican reputation and her own. Later readers, seeing the Hutchinsons' marriage through the lens of companionate marriage rather than the conflict-ridden language of friendship, miss some of the forms of republicanism and dissent, within and without marriage. The conjunction of coverture and friendship thus helps to cast the vexed critical conversation about gender conservatism and political radicalism in Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson in a new light. Hutchinson's gender conservatism strategically exploits ideologies of wifely obedience in order to rescue her husband's reputation while maintaining her own principles. This chapter moves across a historical sweep, from Hutchinson's early writings about her husband's wartime life in the 1650s, to the effects of the restoration in the 1660s, into her religious writings in the 1670s. It takes its guiding questions from the impossible conjunctions of Hutchinson's later reputation, looking to both manuscript and published materials in order to uncover the means by which those contradictions are effaced as contradictions.Less
Lucy Hutchinson uses the language of betrayal-oriented friendship to preserve both her husband's republican reputation and her own. Later readers, seeing the Hutchinsons' marriage through the lens of companionate marriage rather than the conflict-ridden language of friendship, miss some of the forms of republicanism and dissent, within and without marriage. The conjunction of coverture and friendship thus helps to cast the vexed critical conversation about gender conservatism and political radicalism in Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson in a new light. Hutchinson's gender conservatism strategically exploits ideologies of wifely obedience in order to rescue her husband's reputation while maintaining her own principles. This chapter moves across a historical sweep, from Hutchinson's early writings about her husband's wartime life in the 1650s, to the effects of the restoration in the 1660s, into her religious writings in the 1670s. It takes its guiding questions from the impossible conjunctions of Hutchinson's later reputation, looking to both manuscript and published materials in order to uncover the means by which those contradictions are effaced as contradictions.
Paul S. Ropp
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520064409
- eISBN:
- 9780520908932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520064409.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses Chinese Taoism and Buddhism that contrast very sharply with the Judeo-Christian tradition. It argues that it was largely their continued possession of religious writings that ...
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This chapter discusses Chinese Taoism and Buddhism that contrast very sharply with the Judeo-Christian tradition. It argues that it was largely their continued possession of religious writings that gave them coherence as traditions over space and time and that this textual legacy makes them uniquely approachable to researchers from outside the Chinese cultural world. Despite its borrowings from Buddhism, Taoism had very ancient roots in China, and it retained a distinctly Chinese outlook, particularly with regard to social and political questions over which Buddhism came into conflict with Chinese ways of thinking. The collapse of the T'ang dynasty deeply affected Taoism and Buddhism. Both Chinese Buddhism and Taoism are generally much more interested in practice than belief. One can point to a Taoist “ten commandments” but not to any Taoist creed, and the same essentially holds true for Buddhism as well.Less
This chapter discusses Chinese Taoism and Buddhism that contrast very sharply with the Judeo-Christian tradition. It argues that it was largely their continued possession of religious writings that gave them coherence as traditions over space and time and that this textual legacy makes them uniquely approachable to researchers from outside the Chinese cultural world. Despite its borrowings from Buddhism, Taoism had very ancient roots in China, and it retained a distinctly Chinese outlook, particularly with regard to social and political questions over which Buddhism came into conflict with Chinese ways of thinking. The collapse of the T'ang dynasty deeply affected Taoism and Buddhism. Both Chinese Buddhism and Taoism are generally much more interested in practice than belief. One can point to a Taoist “ten commandments” but not to any Taoist creed, and the same essentially holds true for Buddhism as well.
Dorothea von Mücke
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231172462
- eISBN:
- 9780231539333
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172462.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, this book unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern ...
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Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, this book unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering concerns of authorship and audience, it revitalizes scholarship on the Enlightenment. It engages with three critical categories: aesthetics, authorship, and the public sphere, tracing the relationship between religious and aesthetic modes of reflective contemplation, autobiography and the hermeneutics of the self, and the discursive creation of the public sphere. Focusing largely on German intellectual life, the book also extends to France through Jean-Jacques Rousseau and to England through Shaftesbury. Rereading canonical works and lesser-known texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Johann Gottfried von Herder, the book challenges common narratives recounting the rise of empiricist philosophy, the idea of the “sensible” individual, and the notion of the modern author as celebrity, bringing new perspective to the Enlightenment concepts of instinct, drive, genius, and the public sphere.Less
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century pietistic traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, this book unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering concerns of authorship and audience, it revitalizes scholarship on the Enlightenment. It engages with three critical categories: aesthetics, authorship, and the public sphere, tracing the relationship between religious and aesthetic modes of reflective contemplation, autobiography and the hermeneutics of the self, and the discursive creation of the public sphere. Focusing largely on German intellectual life, the book also extends to France through Jean-Jacques Rousseau and to England through Shaftesbury. Rereading canonical works and lesser-known texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Johann Gottfried von Herder, the book challenges common narratives recounting the rise of empiricist philosophy, the idea of the “sensible” individual, and the notion of the modern author as celebrity, bringing new perspective to the Enlightenment concepts of instinct, drive, genius, and the public sphere.
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226864877
- eISBN:
- 9780226864907
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226864907.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her ...
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Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name to a reception unequaled by any other German woman during her lifetime. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina's works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century. This book provides translations for the first time into English three of the thirty-six meditations, restoring Catharina to her rightful place in print. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ—including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb—and in Scripture in general. The selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina's devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history.Less
Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name to a reception unequaled by any other German woman during her lifetime. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina's works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century. This book provides translations for the first time into English three of the thirty-six meditations, restoring Catharina to her rightful place in print. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ—including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb—and in Scripture in general. The selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina's devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history.
