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Author(s): Alec Ryrie
ISBN(s): 9780199565726, 0199565724
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.61 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199565724 

ISBN 13: 9780199565726

Author: Alec Ryrie

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.

Table of contents: 

I. THE PROTESTANT EMOTIONS
1. Cultivating the Affections
1. Discipline and Nourish
2. Hearts of Stone
2. Despair and Salvation
1. A Culture of Despair?
2. The Threat of Hell
3. Emotion and Salvation
3. The Meaning of Mourning
1. True Repentance
2. How to Repent
3. The End of Repentance
4. Desire
1. The Need for Desire
2. Kindling Desire
3. Zeal
5. Joy
1. Protestants and Happiness
2. Enduring Joy
3. Fleeting Joy
4. The Paradoxes of Joy
II. THE PROTESTANT AT PRAYER
6. The Meaning of Prayer
1. The Worth of Prayer
2. Inability to Pray
3. Prayer and Meditation
7. Answering Prayer
1. Why Pray?
2. Worldly and Otherworldly Prayer
3. Prayer and Action
4. Vows and Covenants
5. Experiencing Answers
8. The Practice of Prayer
1. Continuous Prayer
2. Times of Prayer
3. Places of Prayer
4. Posture and Gesture
5. Tears
6. ‘Humiliation’
9. Speaking to God
1. Preparation and Formality
2. Words, Silence, and Groans
3. Set and Extempore Prayer
4. Praying in Scripture Phrase
5. Common Prayer and Private Devotion
10. Prayer as Struggle
1. Persistence and Suffering
2. The Armour of God
3. Wrestling with God
III. THE PROTESTANT AND THE WORD
11. Reading
1. Literacy and Learning
2. Protestants and their Bibles
3. Protestant Books and Catholic Books
4. The Book as Object
12. Writing
1. Writing the Word
2. Public and Private Writing
IV. THE PROTESTANT IN COMPANY
13. The Experience of Worship
1. Public Prayer
2. Baptism
3. The Lord’s Supper
4. Experiencing the Sermon
14. Prayer in the Household
1. Prescription and Practice
2. Themes of Family Prayer
3. Table-graces
4. Conference and Fellowship
5. Keeping Company with Sinners
V. THE PROTESTANT LIFE
15. The Meaning of Life
1. Progress and Repentance
2. Nurturing Crisis
3. Aspiring to Martyrdom
16. The Stages of Life
1. Childhood
2. Conversion
3. The Passage of Time
4. Vocation
5. Marking the Years
6. The Deathbed
Conclusion
Select Bibliography

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