By Donald A. Spaeth
This ebook appears at renowned faith in early glossy England, utilizing special money owed of neighborhood conflicts to convey the faith of normal humans to lifestyles. not like different reports, it examines now not magical ideals yet orthodox faith. It counters the view that renowned and elite tradition in Europe and Britain turned polarized by means of displaying how the gentry and other people cooperated in regulating faith. yet whereas the clergy didn't deserve their negative attractiveness, their defensiveness additionally avoided them from pleasant well known non secular wishes.
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The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740
This booklet seems to be at well known faith in early sleek England, utilizing particular bills of neighborhood conflicts to carry the faith of normal humans to lifestyles. not like different reports, it examines now not magical ideals yet orthodox faith. It counters the view that well known and elite tradition in Europe and Britain grew to become polarized by way of exhibiting how the gentry and folks cooperated in regulating faith.
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Elton, Star Chamber Stories (London, 1958), pp. 216–18. Cf. P. Marshall, The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation (Oxford, 1994), ch. 8. 112 The subjects at dispute had little to do with theological debates over such issues as the sacrament of grace, the positioning of the altar, or the wearing of a surplice. Yet they had a great deal to do with religion as it was experienced by parishioners. Conflicts might impinge directly upon church worship. 113 A quarrel with the parson was different from any other precisely because it was with the parson, whose role as a shepherd of his flock was supposed to cause him to act as a peacemaker rather than a disputant.
Those thirty or so Wiltshire parishes where lay–clerical conflict was a persistent theme of worship will be the focus of much of the remainder of this book, providing the basis for a dozen or so in-depth case studies that place us in the religious world of the parish. Disputes between ministers and their congregations were not a new phenomenon. There is no reason to believe that lay–clerical conflict was substantially worse than it had been before the Civil Wars or would be in the early nineteenth century, when the Anglican clergy are known to have been targets for criticism.
115 We are able to catch only rare glimpses of the way in which they were prepared and submitted. Depositions were also not made spontaneously but came in response to questions provided by the two parties. The testimonies of witnesses, and often presentments too, were recorded by scribes. Since in the consistory court the questions and their answers were written in Latin, language creates an additional barrier between people’s voices and the documentary record. The registrar must have given the questions in English, but we cannot tell how close his translation was to the Latin original.
