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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedomdi Stephen Tomkins
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As for why I picked up this book, it was mostly to get a better sense of why the folks who hit the beach at "Plymouth Rock" in 1620 left the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands, when I was always left with the impression that was a viable option. Such was not actually the case, but before one gets to that point the author takes you through the trauma of the reign of Mary Tudor, and how that went a long way towards aborting any relatively clean transition to a national protestant church in England, leaving opinion shattered, particularly since the Church of England was seen as backward on so many theological issues from the perspective of continental theological thought. At the very least the people who became the "Pilgrims" were left permanently allergic to any form of state church, and ultimately broke with predestination and infant baptism, on the way to becoming the denomination that we recognize as Baptist. While I certainly credit the author as knowing his history, he does spend a lot of time in the weeds before he meanders to his destination; even Tomkins seems to weary of people who seemed deeply attracted to the "narcissism of small differences." ( ) An analysis of the history of Protestant separatism starting from the reign of Catholic Queen Mary through Protestants Elizabeth and James. Although clearly well-researched, I found the author's writing style tedious. The development of separatism in contrast to the Anglican Church is complex enough. By adding unnecessary detail in terms of names, places and neverending theological arguments, this book becomes tiresome. While an interesting subject, a more concise and effective writing style would have made for a much better book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Brings readers the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower--the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It is a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story, which pioneered the idea of religious freedom. The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts with Queen Mary's attempts to burn Protestantism out of England, which created a Protestant underground. Later, when Elizabeth's Protestant reformation didn't go far enough, radicals recreated that underground, meeting illegally throughout England, facing prison and death for their crimes. They went into exile in the Netherlands, where they lived in poverty--and finally to the New World. Historian Stephen Tomkins tells this fascinating story--one that is rarely told as an important piece of English, as well as American, history--that is full of contemporary relevance: religious violence, the threat to national security, freedom of religion, and tolerance of dangerous opinions." -- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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