Matthew C Bingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew C Bingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bingham |
| SIGNATURE | BINGHAM M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7456-6096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trust in the Catholic Reformation
Radical Religion and Laudian Rites
This article argues that the radical religious movements emerging during the English Revolution were indebted to a wider range of influences than is commonly assumed. This overarching argument is advanced through a close examination of a specific religious rite practiced by English General Baptists during the 1640s and 1650s: during this period, many General Baptists began to lay hands upon newly baptized converts as an initiatory liturgical rite…
English radical religion and the invention of the General Baptists, 1609–1660
As the English church splintered during the mid-seventeenth century, the resultant religious diversity overwhelmed contemporary observers, who struggled to make sense of rapidly advancing theological, political, and cultural changes. This religious chaos has, in turn, produced a similar sense of disorientation among scholars attempting to understand it, and questions of how to best categorise radical religion have generated intense controversy. O…
On the Idea of a National Church
In 1641, the Congregational minister Thomas Goodwin delivered a series of sermons to his independent church in London, expounding the letter to the Ephesians in characteristically meticulous detail. Goodwin had recently returned to England after a brief but formative period of religious exile in the Netherlands, and as the Sundays passed, his auditors were surely moved by the oratory of a speaker so "blessed with a rich invention and a solid and …
English Baptists and the Struggle for Theological Authority, 1642–1646
This article explores interactions between Baptist lay theologians and ordained clergy during the first English civil war. Despite their marginalised position outside the national Church, Baptists employed a variety of innovative techniques to coerce ordained ministers into debates which the latter would have preferred to avoid. Though Baptists during the period did not achieve intellectual parity with the members of the Westminster Assembly and …
S. Bryn Roberts, Puritanism and the pursuit of happiness
Puritanism and pursuit of happiness: ministry and of Ralph Venning c. 1621-1674, by S. Bryn Roberts, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2015, 232 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781843839781Since its origination as a sixteenth-century term of abuse, label has been associated with a grim severity in doctrine and a corresponding joylessness in life. From Benjamin Jonson to H.L. Mencken, cultural commentators have repeatedly portrayed English puritans as fund…
English Baptists and the Struggle for Theological Authority, 1642–1646
This article explores interactions between Baptist lay theologians and ordained clergy during the first English civil war. Despite their marginalised position outside the national Church, Baptists employed a variety of innovative techniques to coerce ordained ministers into debates which the latter would have preferred to avoid. Though Baptists during the period did not achieve intellectual parity with the members of the Westminster Assembly and …
English radical religion and the invention of the General Baptists, 1609–1660
As the English church splintered during the mid-seventeenth century, the resultant religious diversity overwhelmed contemporary observers, who struggled to make sense of rapidly advancing theological, political, and cultural changes. This religious chaos has, in turn, produced a similar sense of disorientation among scholars attempting to understand it, and questions of how to best categorise radical religion have generated intense controversy. O…
S. Bryn Roberts, Puritanism and the pursuit of happiness
Puritanism and pursuit of happiness: ministry and of Ralph Venning c. 1621-1674, by S. Bryn Roberts, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2015, 232 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781843839781Since its origination as a sixteenth-century term of abuse, label has been associated with a grim severity in doctrine and a corresponding joylessness in life. From Benjamin Jonson to H.L. Mencken, cultural commentators have repeatedly portrayed English puritans as fund…
English Baptists and the Struggle for Theological Authority, 1642–1646
This article explores interactions between Baptist lay theologians and ordained clergy during the first English civil war. Despite their marginalised position outside the national Church, Baptists employed a variety of innovative techniques to coerce ordained ministers into debates which the latter would have preferred to avoid. Though Baptists during the period did not achieve intellectual parity with the members of the Westminster Assembly and …
English radical religion and the invention of the General Baptists, 1609–1660
As the English church splintered during the mid-seventeenth century, the resultant religious diversity overwhelmed contemporary observers, who struggled to make sense of rapidly advancing theological, political, and cultural changes. This religious chaos has, in turn, produced a similar sense of disorientation among scholars attempting to understand it, and questions of how to best categorise radical religion have generated intense controversy. O…
On the Idea of a National Church
In 1641, the Congregational minister Thomas Goodwin delivered a series of sermons to his independent church in London, expounding the letter to the Ephesians in characteristically meticulous detail. Goodwin had recently returned to England after a brief but formative period of religious exile in the Netherlands, and as the Sundays passed, his auditors were surely moved by the oratory of a speaker so "blessed with a rich invention and a solid and …
Radical Religion and Laudian Rites
This article argues that the radical religious movements emerging during the English Revolution were indebted to a wider range of influences than is commonly assumed. This overarching argument is advanced through a close examination of a specific religious rite practiced by English General Baptists during the 1640s and 1650s: during this period, many General Baptists began to lay hands upon newly baptized converts as an initiatory liturgical rite…
Trust in the Catholic Reformation
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