Introduction: Showing Dissenting Hands

• Published in: Bunyan studies Vol. 20; no. 20; pp. 7 - 13
• Main Authors: Davies, Michael, Dunan-Page, Anne, Halcomb, Joel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2016; The International John Bunyan Society
• Series: Dissenting Hands
• Subjects: American Indians; Archives & records; Bendroth, Margaret; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Essays; Hands; History; Humanities and Social Sciences; Library collections; Literary devices; Literature; Meetings; Religions; Religious congregations; Religious organizations; Religious persecution; Researchers; Spirituality; United Kingdom > UK; England; Ireland; Church books; Dissenters; Baptist Churches; Congregationalists; Seventeenth Century England; John Bunyan; Nonconformity

For what these records offer, uniquely, is an intimate insight into the lives of their individual congregations: how they first embodied and were subsequently organised; the pastoral actions and disciplinary decisions that they undertook; the disputes that they were forced to settle, within and with...