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Sin and Salvation in Reformation England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sin and Salvation in Reformation England (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might
lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and
practice in early modern England, but both of these vitally
important concepts were fundamentally reconfigured by the
reformation. Remarkably little work has been undertaken exploring
the ways in which these essential ideas were transformed by the
religious changes of the sixteenth-century. In the field of
reformation studies, revisionist scholarship has underlined the
vitality of late-medieval English Christianity and the degree to
which people remained committed to the practices of the Catholic
Church up to the eve of the reformation, including those dealing
with the mortification of sin and the promise of salvation. Such
popular commitment to late-medieval lay piety has in turn raised
questions about how the reformation itself was able to take root.
Whilst post-revisionist scholars have explored a wide range of
religious beliefs and practices - such as death, providence,
angels, and music - there has been a surprising lack of engagement
with the two central religious preoccupations of the vast majority
of people. To address this omission, this collection focusses upon
the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and
post-reformation England. Exploring their complex social and
cultural constructions, it underlines how sin and salvation were
not only great religious constants, but also constantly evolving in
order to survive in the rapidly transforming religious landscape of
the reformation. Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives
- historical, theological, literary, and material/art-historical -
to both reveal and explain the complexity of the concepts of sin
and salvation, the volume further illuminates a subject central to
the nature and success of the Reformation itself. Divided into four
sections, Part I explores reformers' attempts to define and
re-define the theological concepts of sin and salvation, while Part
II looks at some of the ways in which sin and salvation were
contested: through confessional conflict, polemic, poetry and
martyrology. Part III focuses on the practical attempts of English
divines to reform sin with respect to key religious practices,
while Part IV explores the significance of sin and salvation in the
lived experience of both clergy and laity. Evenly balancing
contributions by established academics in the field with
cutting-edge contributions from junior researchers, this collection
breaks new ground, in what one historian of the period has referred
to as the 'social history of theology'.
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