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Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity

Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9781783276271
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 10/09/2021
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity. Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and by all people - is itself an act of faith: to reconcile it with the historical fact of persistent division and plurality requires a constant effort. It also requires a variety of strategies, from confrontation and exclusion, through deliberate choices as to what is forgotten or ignored, to creative or even indulgent inclusion. In this volume, seventeen leading historians of Christianity ask how the ideal of unity has clashed, negotiated, reconciled or coexisted with the historical reality of diversity, in a range of historical settings from the early Church through the Reformation era to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These essays hold the huge variety of the Christian experience together with the ideal of orthodoxy, which Christians have never (yet) fully attained but for which they have always striven; and they trace some of the consequences of the pursuit of that ideal for the history of Christianity.
1. 'Jewish Christianity' in antiquity: meaningless category or heuristic irritant? James Carleton Paget 2. 'Sola Fide': The Wrong Slogan? Morna D. Hooker 3. Both Cromwellian and Augustinian: The influence of Thomas Cromwell on reform within the early modern English Austin Friars Anik Laferrière 4. Lex, Rex, and Sex: The Bigamy of Philipp of Hesse and the Lutheran Recourse to Natural Law Korey D. Maas 5. The Authority of Scripture in Reformation Anglicanism: Then and Now Ashley Null 6. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Post-Reformation Euan Cameron 7. Profanity and Piety in the Church Porch: The Place of Transgression in Early Modern England Ethan Shagan 8. Writing on the Walls: Word and Image in the Post-Reformation English Church Felicity Heal 9. The Myth of the Church of England Alec Ryrie 10. Mysticism, orthodoxy and Reformed identity before the English Revolution: the case of John Everard Sarah Apetrei 11. Sacrilege and the Sacred in England's Second Reformation, 1640-1660 Judith Maltby 12. 'I had not the patience to be quiet': Arthur Bury and The Naked Gospel Alison Dight 13. 'A Soul-Corrupting Indifferentism': The Intellectual Development of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Jonathan Yonan 14. Newman, Dogma and Freedom in the Church Eamon Duffy 15. 'Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?' Reconsidering Religion and the British Soldier Michael Snape 16. King James Vulgate Ellie Gabarowski-Shafer 17. The Myth of the Anglican Communion? Hannah Cleugh

Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, Ashley Null, Alec Ryrie

ELLIE GEBAROWSKI-SHAFER is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the history of Christianity. She now works in the legal field in Rutland, Vermont (USA), registered as a law clerk in Vermont's Law Office Study Program. ASHLEY NULL is a visiting fellow at the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University and St. John's College, Durham University. ALEC RYRIE is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. MICHAEL SNAPE is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. ELLIE GEBAROWSKI-SHAFER is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the history of Christianity. She now works in the legal field in Rutland, Vermont (USA), registered as a law clerk in Vermont's Law Office Study Program. ASHLEY NULL is a visiting fellow at the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University and St. John's College, Durham University. ALEC RYRIE is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University.

This is a fine collection of essays, alive with provocative reflections, all centred on the threefold theme of 'the making, breaking and enduring of orthodoxies'. Readers will gain nourishment here and not be disappointed. -- CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINE

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