The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit - Hardcover

Damrosch, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674821432 ISBN 13: 9780674821439

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1996

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Damrosch has undertaken in this gripping historical monograph to explain what he refers to as 'the meaning of the Nayler affair.' Against the background of the political culture of the Interregnum period, he seeks to unpack the rich significance of Nayler's mistakenly blasphemous 'sign'...Certainly the Puritans of the Interregnum were becoming more powerful...As Damrosch illustrates so vividly in this superbly crafted book, there is a very real (and dangerous) sense in which all power does corrupt.--Douglas A. Sweeney "Books and Culture "

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In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader - second only to George Fox in the nascent movement - rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period. Damrosch gives a clear picture of the origins and early development of the Quaker movement, elucidating the intellectual foundations of Quaker theology. A number of central issues come into sharp relief, including gender symbolism and the role of women, belief in miraculous cures, and - particularly in relation to the meaning of the entry into Bristol - "signs of the indwelling spirit". Damrosch's account of the trial and savage punishment of Nayler for blasphemy exposes the political of the puritan response, the limits to Cromwellian religious liberalism. "The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus" is at once a study of antinomian religious thought, of an exemplary individualist movement that suddenly found itself obliged to impose order, and of the ways in which religious and political ideas become intertwined in a period of crisis.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674821432
• ISBN 13: 9780674821439
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336