Kenneth L. Campbell

Windows into Men's Souls (eBook, ePUB)

Religious Nonconformity in Tudor and Early Stuart England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Windows into Men's Souls uses the works of John Robinson, Thomas Helwys, and John Smyth to examine the concept of religious nonconformity that was inherent in the English Reformation. Kenneth Campbell frames the primary works and historical development of various groups and individuals as examples of a general impulse toward religious nonconformity during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During this time, religious nonconformity became an integral part of English culture and society, shaped by a historical experience that led to rebellion and civil war. The issues that English thinkers wrestled with during this period led to profound insights on both Christianity and on religious toleration that continue to shape Anglo-American and Western religious culture to the present day. This is the story of courageous people-Catholics and Protestants, Separatists and non-Separatists-who ignored, defied, or challenged their government to pursue their own version of religious truth in an age of religious intolerance that valued conformity at all costs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739168202
• Artikelnr.: 39046629

Autorenporträt

Kenneth L. Campbell is professor of history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Problem of Religious Identity
Chapter 2: The Origins of Religious Nonconformity in England
Chapter 3: The Concept of Religious Truth
Chapter 4: Separatism in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Chapter 5: Religious Dissent in the Reign of James I
Chapter 6: Internationalism and English Religion
Chapter 7: Arminianism and the English Separatists