Humanists, Puritans and the Spiritualized Household

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3344724
AutoresMargo Todd (Washington University in St. Louis, autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas18-34
Fecha de publicación1980-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaChurch History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3164637
OpenAlexW1980182436
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas10

The stress of Elizabethan and early Stuart Puritans on the significance of the family as the fundamental spiritual unit of society has led historians to the apparent but perhaps simplistic conclusion that the origins of this doctrine are to be found in Protestant theology. The concomitants of the doctrine-an exaltation of the marriage relationship, a demand for household religious education and discipline and a slight but noteworthy elevation of the position of women within the household-are therefore attributed to Protestantism and particularly to Protestantism of "the hotter sort." We are told, for example, that "the Reformation, by reducing the authority of the priest in society, simultaneously elevated the authority of lay heads of households" and that the stress on household religious instruction and discipline "was part of the protestant inheritance

Doctrine · Economics · Humanism · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Political science · Position (finance) · Protestantism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies