Translating Feeling
The Bible, Affections and Protestantism in England c .1660– c .1750
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12032829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A L Smith (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Pages | 311-323 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/stc.2016.18 |
| OpenAlex | W2620178303 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the way in which English Protestants of the post-Restoration period translated the affective precepts of the Bible into their own devotional practice. In so doing, it challenges persistent narratives that have understood late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century religion as languishing under an apparent ‘reaction against enthusiasm’. By examining the language used in the life-writings of English Protestants in the north-west of England c. 1660– c. 1750, it demonstrates how biblical discourses on feeling were translated into lay and clerical accounts of their devotional practice. Drawing upon the work of Thomas Dixon and Barbara Rosenwein, the article shows the centrality of biblical injunctions to feeling within sermons and personal devotional practice. Moreover, it exhibits the manner in which affective discourses in the Book of Psalms in particular were used and translated into everyday religious experience. The Bible is shown as a text of affective instruction for the individuals discussed here
Aesthetics · Art · English language · Enthusiasm · Feeling · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · New england · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Theology · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Law · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Social Psychology
Cultural history
The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660–1714
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative
Seventeenth Century Contexts
Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment
Elizabethan and Jacobean Puritanism as Forms of Popular Religious Culture
Betraying Our Selves
Reason, Grace and Sentiment
The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England
Reading, the Godly, and Self-Writing in England, circa 1580–1720
Passion and Action
"Rational Religion" in Restoration England
The English Presbyterians
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |