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Indlæser... The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spiritaf Leo Damrosch
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In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader--second only to George Fox in the nascent movement--rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period. Damrosch gives a clear picture of the origins and early development of the Quaker movement, elucidating the intellectual foundations of Quaker theology. A number of central issues come into sharp relief, including gender symbolism and the role of women, belief in miraculous cures, and--particularly in relation to the meaning of the entry into Bristol--"signs of the in-dwelling spirit." Damrosch's account of the trial and savage punishment of Nayler for blasphemy exposes the politics of the Puritan response, the limits to Cromwellian religious liberalism. The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus is at once a study of antinomian religious thought, of an exemplary individualist movement that suddenly found itself obliged to impose order, and of the ways in which religious and political ideas become intertwined in a period of crisis. It is also a vivid portrait of a fascinating man. No library descriptions found. |
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If Puritanism is defined as a movement of Christians in Britain who wished to purify the Church of England, it would seem that the Quakers belong in the Radical Puritan movement rather than outside the Puritan movement altogether, which is where Damrosch placed them. Nevertheless, this book is a fine piece of research into the issues of religious toleration and social order in Cromwellian England.
Through Nayler's defense of is belief that Jesus dwelt in all believers, Damrosch vividly shows the predicament of Quakers in a society that felt threatened by them and their prophetic claims. He used primary sources to demonstrate that Nayler was an eloquent speaker and deeply intelligent as well as interesting thinker. In fact, Nayler comes across as a subtler and more perspicuous writer than George fox.
This excellent book is a profound study of human beings caught up in one of the more fascinating sects that grew out of the radical Puritan movement in Britain. Marcella Biro Barton, University of Rio Grande; Cambridge Journal Online