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Author Ryrie, Alec, author

Title Being Protestant in Reformation Britain / Alec Ryrie
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents I. The Protestant emotions. Cultivating the affections -- Despair and salvation -- The meaning of mourning -- Desire -- Joy -- II. The Protestant at prayer. The meaning of prayer -- Answering prayer -- The practice of prayer -- Speaking to God -- Prayer as struggle -- III. The Protestant and the Word. Reading -- Writing -- IV. The Protestant in company. The experience of worship -- Prayer in the household -- V. The Protestant life. The meaning of life -- The stages of life
Summary A comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640. The focus is on material reality and the real experience of actual believers, drawn from diaries and other direct testimonies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-490) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Protestants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 16th century
Protestants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Protestants -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
Protestants -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Reformation -- Great Britain
11.55 Protestantism.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
Religion.
Protestants.
Protestants -- Social conditions.
Reformation.
Reformation
Protestant
Alltagskultur
Protestantism -- historia.
Reformationen.
Religion.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Storbritannien.
Genre/Form Electronic book
History.
Form Electronic book
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