Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England
Lynch uses this case study to tease out wider questions of how religious tolerance could be achieved through neighbourliness and community, to 'emphasize the confusions and discontinuities in Dissenting church formation at this time' (p. 65). A more 'vigorous disciplinarian' than...
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Published in | Bunyan studies no. 24; pp. 131 - 134 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Newcastle Upon Tyne
Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
01.01.2020
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Summary: | Lynch uses this case study to tease out wider questions of how religious tolerance could be achieved through neighbourliness and community, to 'emphasize the confusions and discontinuities in Dissenting church formation at this time' (p. 65). A more 'vigorous disciplinarian' than the 'tinker' of Bedford, Ebenezer Chandler steered his flock towards a 'Presbyterian-leaning Congregationalism', introducing church practices 'often resisted by more hard-line Calvinistic churches' - such as infant baptism and the singing of psalms - which ultimately saw church authority being 'concentrated more pointedly in the pastor's hands' (pp. 178, 189, 190). In tracking truancy (sometimes decades long) extant church books record congregants participating in a 'pluralism of worship' between Dissenting chapels and the Church of England, and evince further competing factors of domestic, economic and social responsibilities (p. 209). |
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ISSN: | 0954-0970 |