{"product_id":"church-life-pastors-congregations-and-the-experience-of-dissent-in-seventeenth-century-england-9780198753193","title":"Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England","description":"\u003cem\u003eChurch Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century. Spanning the period from\u003cbr\u003ethe English Revolution to the Glorious Revolution, and beyond, the contributors examine the social, political, and religious character of England's 'gathered' churches and reformed parishes: how pastors and their congregations interacted; how Dissenters related to their meetings as religious\u003cbr\u003ecommunities; and what the experience of church life was like for ordinary members as well as their ministers, including notably John Owen and Richard Baxter alongside less well-known figures, such as Ebenezer Chandler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving beyond the religious experience of the solitary individual, often exemplified by conversion, \u003cem\u003eChurch Life\u003c\/em\u003e redefines the experience of Dissent, concentrating instead on the collective concerns of a communally-centred church life through a wide spectrum of issues: from questions of liberty and\u003cbr\u003epastoral reform to matters of church discipline and respectability. With a substantial introduction that puts into context the key concepts of 'church life' and the 'Dissenting experience', the contributors offer fresh ways of understanding Protestant Dissent in seventeenth-century England: through\u003cbr\u003edifferences in ecclesiology and pastoral theory, and via the buildings in which Dissent was nurtured to the building-up of Dissent during periods of civil war, persecution, and revolution. They draw on a broad range of printed and archival materials: from the minutes of the Westminster Assembly to\u003cbr\u003ethe manuscript church books of early Dissenting congregations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198753193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Davies, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Dunan-Page, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Early Modern British Studies, Aix-Marseille Universite\u003c\/em\u003e, Joel Halcomb, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Among his publications is \u003cem\u003eGraceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan\u003c\/em\u003e (2002). He is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan\u003c\/em\u003e (with W. R. Owens; 2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne Dunan-Page is Professor of Early Modern British Studies at Aix-Marseille Universite, where she directs the Research Centre on the Anglophone World. Her books include \u003cem\u003eGrace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBunyan\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eRoger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (with Beth Lynch; 2008). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoel Halcomb is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He was assistant editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40455046660211,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":197.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_da1740a7-9a8a-4c36-8b9f-b555c83007cd.jpg?v=1663679522","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/church-life-pastors-congregations-and-the-experience-of-dissent-in-seventeenth-century-england-9780198753193","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}