9780198736653-0198736657-Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

ISBN-13: 9780198736653
ISBN-10: 0198736657
Edition: Reprint
Author: Alec Ryrie
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 520 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198736653
ISBN-10: 0198736657
Edition: Reprint
Author: Alec Ryrie
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 520 pages

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Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (ISBN-13: 9780198736653 and ISBN-10: 0198736657), written by authors Alec Ryrie, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Protestantism (Christian Books & Bibles) books. You can easily purchase or rent Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Protestantism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.27.

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The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism.

Beginning from the surprisingly urgent, multifaceted emotions of Protestantism, Ryrie explores practices of prayer, of family and public worship, and of reading and writing, tracking them through the life course from childhood through conversion and vocation to the deathbed. He examines what Protestant piety drew from its Catholic predecessors and contemporaries, and grounds that piety in material realities such as posture, food, and tears.

This perspective shows us what it meant to be Protestant in the British Reformations: a meeting of intensity (a religion which sought authentic feeling above all, and which dreaded hypocrisy and hard-heartedness) with dynamism (a progressive religion, relentlessly pursuing sanctification and dreading idleness). That combination, for good or ill, gave the Protestant experience its particular quality of restless, creative zeal.

The Protestant devotional experience also shows us that this was a broad-based religion: for all the differences across time, between two countries, between men and women, and between puritans and conformists, this was recognisably a unified culture, in which common experiences and practices cut across supposed divides. Alec Ryrie shows us Protestantism, not as the preachers on all sides imagined it, but as it was really lived.

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