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Anglicanism and the Christian Church. Theological resources in historical perspective. By Paul Avis. Revised and expanded 2nd edn. Pp. xxii+393. London–New York: T. & T. Clark, 2002 (first publ. 1989). £16.99 (paper). 0 567 08849 9; 0 567 08745 X

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2003, Vol.54 (4), p.771-772 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2003 Cambridge University Press ;Copyright Cambridge University Press Oct 2003 ;ISSN: 0022-0469 ;EISSN: 1469-7637 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0022046903308097

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    Anglicanism and the Christian Church. Theological resources in historical perspective. By Paul Avis. Revised and expanded 2nd edn. Pp. xxii+393. London–New York: T. & T. Clark, 2002 (first publ. 1989). £16.99 (paper). 0 567 08849 9; 0 567 08745 X
  • Author: JACOB, WILLIAM M.
  • Subjects: Archives & records ; Collections ; Deaths ; Funerals ; Protestant Reformation ; Religion ; Religious orthodoxy ; Reviews ; Sermons ; Studies ; Theme
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2003, Vol.54 (4), p.771-772
  • Description: 0 521 81126 0 JEH (54) 2003; DOI: 10.1017/S0022046903218091 Nowhere in early modern Europe was mortality more starkly apparent than in the great cities, where deaths outnumbered births, a third or more of all individuals born probably died in infancy or early childhood, death knells and funerals were part of daily experience, and terrifying, unpredictable epidemics sometimes killed a fth of the inhabitants, forcing the living to nd new space for the legions of the dead. Earlier studies emphasised thematic polarities: heresy became a favourite theme whether it was lay rebellion against the religious discipline enforced by the institutional Roman Church or theological responses to Protestantism; other polarities were perceived in socio-economic groups, or along a spectrum ranging from those who sympathised with Protestant insights to intransigenti who saw danger lurking in all reform. Here one may ask whether such a claim can be sustained. [...]on the dust jacket the present volume is described as covering the crucial turning point in Poles life: his break with Henry and the substitution of papal service for royal, involving a profound religious conversion which took Pole to one of the dening moments of the Italian Reformation and, one may add, the early stages of the Council of Trent to 1546. [...]it is claimed that these letters are a source of
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0022-0469
    EISSN: 1469-7637
    DOI: 10.1017/S0022046903308097
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central

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