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 c. 1530-1640, 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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