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David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of Jacque Chessex's work in any language-a study that reveals Chessex's deep ambivalence towards his Calvinist heritage and his efforts to resolve this dilemma through his texts.

Chessex, Jacques --- Knowledge --- Calvinism --- Calvinism in literature --- Calvinism in literature. --- Calvinism.

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Reformation --- Church history --- Calvinism --- Calvin, Jean

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Christian church history --- Art --- visual arts [discipline] --- decorative arts [discipline] --- church history --- Calvinism --- imago --- Reformation --- Luther, Martin --- Germany

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For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. In his early chapters, the author defines the psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans, arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict between the founders and their children and from the methods of child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Preaching --- Puritans --- Prédication --- Puritains --- History --- New England. --- Histoire --- Preaching -- New England -- History. --- Puritans -- New England. --- History. --- Christian preaching --- Homiletics --- Speaking --- Pastoral theology --- Public speaking --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Religious aspects --- Prédication

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The traditional view of puritans is that they were killjoys - serious, austere, gloomy people who closed theatres and abolished Christmas. This book, based on extensive original research, presents a different view. Focusing on both the writings of the leading Independent divine, Ralph Venning, and also on his pastoral work in the 1640s and 1650s when he was successively chaplain to the Tower of London and vicar of St Olave's, Southwark, the book reveals a much neglected strand of puritan theology. This emphasised the importance of inner happiness and the development of a personal piety which, the author argues, was similar in its nature to medieval mysticism, not that different from the piety promoted by earlier metaphysical preachers, and not at all driven by the predestinarian ideas usually associated with puritans, ideas liable to induce a sense of helplessness and despair. In addition, the book reassesses the role of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where Venning was educated, in shaping puritan thought, discusses Max Weber's ideas about puritanism and capitalism especially in relation to recreation and leisure activities, and demonstrates that Venning's strand of puritanism favoured toleration, moderation and church unity to a much greater degree than is usually associated with puritans. Stephen Bryn Roberts was awarded his doctorate from the University of Aberdeen and has been Adjunct Lecturer in Early Modern Church History at International Christian College, Glasgow since 2011.

Dissenters, Religious --- Puritans --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- Doctrines. --- Venning, Ralph, --- History --- England --- Church history --- Cambridge. --- Capitalism. --- Church Unity. --- Early-Fifteenth-Century Castilian Writer. --- Inner Happiness. --- Leisure Activities. --- Max Weber. --- Medieval Mysticism. --- Moderation. --- Personal Piety. --- Puritan Thought. --- Puritans. --- Ralph Venning. --- Recreation. --- Toleration.