Gifts and Graces : : Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan / / David Gay.
Prayer divided seventeenth-century England. Anglican Conformists such as Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy Taylor upheld set forms of prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, a book designed to unite the nation in worship. Puritan Reformers and Dissenters such as John Milton and John Bunyan rejected the pray...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Lancelot Andrewes and George Herbert: The Word of Charity
- Chapter Two. Jeremy Taylor and Henry Vaughan: The Stock of Nature and Art
- Chapter Three. John Milton (1634–1650): The Spirit of Utterance
- Chapter Four. John Milton (1650–1674): The Spirit of Prayer
- Chapter Five. John Bunyan: The Nameless Terrible Instrument
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index