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Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century - 'The Sacred Theatre of the Cevennes' (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century - 'The Sacred Theatre of the Cevennes' (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,
French protestants faced the stark choice of abandoning their
religion, or defying the law. Many fled abroad, whilst others
continued to meet clandestinely for worship and to organise
resistance to government policy, culminating in the bloody Camisard
rebellion of 1702-10. During this period of conflict and
repression, a distinct culture of prophecy and divine inspiration
grew up, which was to become a defining characteristic of the
dispersed protestant communities in southern France. Drawing on a
wide range of printed and manuscript material, this study, examines
the nature of Huguenot prophesying in the Cevennes during the early
years of the eighteenth century. As well as looking at events in
France, the book also explores the reactions of the Huguenot
community of London, which became caught up in the prophesying
controversy with the publication in 1707 of Le Theatre sacre des
Cevennes. This book, which recounted the stories of exiles who had
witnessed prophesying and miraculous events in the Cevennes, not
only provided a first hand account of an outlawed religion, but
became the centre of a heated debate in London concerning
'false-prophets'. By exploring French protestantism through
voluntary testimonies given by Huguenot exiles in London, this
study not only offers a rare glimpse of a forbidden religion, but
also shows how a long-established immigrant church in London
confronted the problems posed by recent arrivals infused with a
radical sense of mystic purpose and divine revelation.
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