British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900

ISBN-13: 9780367546113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 302 str.

Opis

This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. It engages with the myth of International Protestantism, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory.

Recenzje

'The richness of the various essays in this volume underlines the need to revisit the history of missions in a broader and more comprehensive framework than that traditionally offered by the history of religion. Maghenzani and Villani have offered a valuable contribution to the study of a historical problem whose importance goes beyond the sphere of religious history -- in itself very significant -- and stretches to crucial aspects of the making of the modern world.' - Eugenio F. Biagini, Rivista Storica Italiana, 134/1, 2022.

'With this volume on the history of British Protestant missionary initiatives in continental Europe, Simone Maghenzani and Stefano Villani have made an important contribution to the methodological renewal and expansion of studies in this field of historical research.' - Massimo Rubboli, Riforma e Movimenti Religiosi, 10, 2021.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Missionary Models  1. ‘One World is not enough’: the ‘myth’ of Roman Catholicism as a ‘World Religion’  2. The Jesuits have shed much blood for Christ’: Early Modern Protestants and the Problem of Catholic Overseas Missions  Section 2: The Origins of Global Protestantism  3. (Re)making Ireland British: Conversion and Civility in a Neglected 1643 Treatise  4. Charting the ‘Progress of Truth’: Quaker Missions and the Topography of Dissent in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe  5. The English and the Italian Bible  Section 3: Missions and Church Unifications in the Age of the Enlightenment  6. "True Catholic Unity": The Church of England and the Project for Gallican Union, 1717-1719  7. "Promoting the Common Interest of Christ" H.W. Ludolf’s ‘impartial’ Projects and the Beginnings of the SPCK  8. Between Anti-popery and European Missions: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Networks  Section 4: A British Missionary Land  9. The Evangelical Transformation of British Protestantism for Mission  10. The London Jews’ Society and the Roots of Premillenialism, 1809-1829  11. Missions on the Fringes of Europe: British Protestants and the Orthodox Churches, c. 1800-1850  Section 5: Making Propaganda, Making Nations  12. Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882  13. The Land of Calvin and Voltaire: British Missionaries in Nineteenth-century Paris