Persuasion and Conversion

Essays on Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25364-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 166, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirby, Torrance

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

1 Religion and propaganda: Thomas Cromwell’s use of Antoine de Marcourt’s Livre des Marchans in 1534

2 Public forum and forum of the conscience: John Calvin’s theological groundwork of the modern public sphere

3 Lay Supremacy: Tudor reform of the Canon Law of England

4 Public preaching: Paul’s Cross and the culture of persuasion

5 Public conversion: Richard Smyth’s ‘Retractation Sermon’ at Paul’s Cross, 1547

6 Politics of hermeneutics: John Jewel’s ‘Challenge Sermon’ at Paul’s Cross, 1559

7 Politics of religious identity: John Foxe, Richard Hooker and the nascent public sphere

8 Politics of persuasion: ‘public’ and ‘private’ in Hooker’s apologetics

9 Public religion and public worship: the hermeneutics of Common Prayer
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Torrance Kirby, DPhil (1988) in Modern History, Christ Church, University of Oxford, is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University. He has published extensively on the thought of Richard Hooker and recently edited A Companion to Richard Hooker (Brill, 2008).