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Selected AbstractsBy the book or with the spirit: the debate over liturgical prayer during the English RevolutionHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 203 2006Christopher Durston This article considers the heated debate over the respective merits of set and extempore prayer that took place in revolutionary England between 1640 and 1662. Until 1645 the English liturgy was based on the 1559 Book of Common Prayer. While many men and women were firmly attached to this, the puritan wing of the Church was never happy with its set forms, and opposition intensified during the sixteen-thirties when the Laudians promoted its use at the expense of preaching. Between 1640 and 1645 a fierce debate raged about whether the Prayer Book should be abolished and, if so, whether it should be replaced by another set liturgy or by extempore forms. In 1645 a Directory for Public Worship replaced the Prayer Book, but this was subsequently criticized both by the defenders of the old set liturgy and by those radicals who resented any restriction on their freedom to compose their own conceived prayers. Throughout the period 1645,60 there was a great variety of liturgical practice in the national Church. This was brought to an end following the restoration of the monarchy, when the Anglican Church returned to the set forms of the 1662 Prayer Book and the nonconformists retained their affection for extempore forms. [source] Pamela and the Anglican Crisis of the 1730sJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 1 2009CAROL STEWART Abstract The publication of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded in 1739 is read as a response to the contemporary crisis of authority in the Anglican Church. Anglican clergy were commonly perceived as corrupt, weak or remote. The Church's moral authority was threatened by its subordination to Whig interests, and its power and influence in the state were endangered by anticlerical legislation put before Parliament in the 1730s. In 1739 the Methodist George Whitefield attacked the Anglican reconciliation of virtue with worldly interest. Richardson deployed fiction to defend the Anglican ethos in Pamela by emphatically rewarding his heroine's ,virtue'. [source] The Politics of Caring for the Poor: Anglican Responses in 1890s TasmaniaJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 3 2007ROBERT S. M. WITHYCOMBE Relieving poverty amongst skilled but unemployed workers during the Tasmanian economic collapse in the 1890s challenged both a conservative government's policy of avoiding public debt by initiating minimal relief and the limited financial and human resources of voluntary philanthropic agencies, the Anglican Church amongst them, whom the Tasmanian governments expected to carry the burden of delivering relief to those deemed to deserve it. With labour organisations too weak to lead, and amidst the silence of church leaders, it fell to individuals like the Reverend Archibald Turnbull to articulate a Christian socialist critique of government policies and values and to advocate the desperate plight of the poor. In this context, this study examines how contemporary government and Anglican Church leaders responded to Turnbull's political and pastoral initiatives in Hobart in 1893,96. [source] Edmund Gibson's Editions of Britannia: Dynastic Chorography and the Particularist Politics of Precedent, 1695,1722HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 182 2000Robert Mayhew Geographical writing has been linked with political discourse as ,advice literature' since the time of Strabo. In the early modern period, geography and related forms of spatial enquiry preserved this role. This article examines the political positioning of William Camden's massively influential chorographical work, Britannia, as updated by a team of scholars led by Edmund Gibson in 1695 and 1722. The 1695 edition is shown to have espoused loyalty to the Anglican church and the Williamite succession through its depiction of Camden and its treatment of the events of the Civil War. This political positioning is shown to have provoked criticism from Francis Atterbury as a minor theme in the convocation controversy. Finally, the second, 1722 edition of Britannia is shown to have shifted to a more blatant Hanoverian loyalism as Gibson and his colleagues grew more fearful of the Jacobites. [source] | ||||||||||