The Classics series, which has inspired many less-successful
imitations over the years, has fulfilled its promise and given us
an invaluable resource of the soul. The Catholic Historical Review
Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works edited with an introduction by Thomas
K. Carroll preface by John Booty Learn to despise the world; or,
which is a better compendium in the duty, learn but truly to
understand it; for it is a cousenage all the way; the head of its
rainbow, and the face of it is flattery; its words are charmes, and
all its stories are false; its body is a shadow, and its hands do
knit spiders webs. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) Jeremy Taylor lived in
an age of transition. Politically, England was emerging as a modern
state, struggling with its new autonomy and experimenting with
representative government. Religiously, the Puritan voices of the
radical Reformation battled with the established church to move it
from the via media. Intellectually, it was an age in which new
philosophical voices were emerging and bards were composing their
odes not in the learned classical languages of antiquity but in
English. Taylor saw the completion of the Authorized Version of
King James near the beginning of his life: an eloquent precursor of
the monumental achievements that men like Donne, Milton, and Bunyan
would make during his lifetime. Taylor has been called the
"Shakespeare of the Divines." Like his older contemporary Lancelot
Andrewes, he drew on the spirit of the Renaissance. Rich classical
allusions, ornate symbolism, and flowing cadences enhance his
presentation of the sacred truths of holy writ. His own experience
of life made him no stranger to suffering, having buried his first
wife and all of his five sons. In his best-known work, Holy Dying,
we have not only a fine example of a genre of spiritual literature
common to the late Middle Ages, but one of the moving meditations
on death ever written. In it we see a man proclaiming the truths of
Christianity, not with the bold speculative originality of mystics
like Eckhart or the systematic precision of Albert the Great, but
with a sheer literary brilliance that enabled him to craft words
that stood like windows to the unseen world of which they spoke:
words that could awaken and stir, that could define and articulate
the myriad sentiments and subtleties of the holy life. In this
volume the whole range of Taylor's achievement is surveyed. His
work as a pilgrim and pastor, theologian and priest, poet and
preacher is presented with comprehensive introductions that
highlight how he blended the insights of the Fathers with the
forces of his own time into brilliant new forms of expressions.
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