The Church in an Age of Danger

Parsons and Parishioners, 1660–1740

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ID23137358
AuthorsDonald A Spaeth (University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2000
Publication date2000-12-21
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueChurch in an Age of Danger (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511496073
OpenAlexW4231566649
Open LibraryOL34437183M
ISBN9780511496073
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This book explores popular support for the Church of England during a critical period, from the Stuart Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century, when Churchmen perceived themselves to be under attack from all sides. In many provincial parishes, the clergy also found themselves in dispute with their congregations. These incidents of dispute are the focus of a series of detailed case studies, drawn from the diocese of Salisbury, which help to bring the religion of the ordinary people to life, while placing local tensions in their broader national context. The period 1660–1740 provides important clues to the long-term decline in the popularity of the Church. Paradoxically, conflicts revealed not anticlericalism but a widely shared social consensus supporting the Anglican liturgy and clergy: the early eighteenth century witnessed a revival. Nevertheless, a defensive clergy turned inwards and proved too inflexible to respond to lay wishes for fuller participation in worship.

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Liturgy · Period (music) · Political science · Popularity · Sociology · Worship · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Scottish History and National Identity · 17th century · 18th century · Anglikanische Kirche · Antiklerikalisme · Church history · Church of England · England · Geestelijkheid · Great britain · Kirchengemeinde · Nonfiction · Pfarrer · Salisbury (bisdom) · Volksglaube

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