The Christian's ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England C. 1530-1740

ISBN-13: 9780198206170 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 784 str.

Ian Green; I. M. Green; Green Ian

Opis

This new work represents the first major study of the catechisms and techniques of catechizing used in early modern England, from the Reformation through to the Evangelical Revival. Catechetical teaching, especially on the Ten Commandments, covered all aspects of contemporary life and the book ends with an annotated list of catechisms which enables those with an interest in educational, literary, or linguistic history, or in political and social as well as religious history, to track down quickly works that could be of particular value to them.

Recenzje

it is now with the publication of Dr Green's monumental and admirable study of catechizing and catechisms that the most obvious point of contact between clerical teaching and popular belief has been properly investigated. He ranges far and wide in search of evidence of the practice of catechizing and makes particularly effective use of the clerical replies to the episcopal questionnaires of the early eighteenth century. He writes in a clear and leisurely prose, with points enumerated and lucidly explained ... the Oxford University Press are to be congratulated on producing a handsome volume with an exceptionally high level of typographical accuracy ... will be an enduring work of reference, enlightenment, and stimulation.