Description
| Product ID: | 9780227177952 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Jewish Christians in Puritan England |
| Authors: | Author: Aidan Cottrell-Boyce |
| Page Count: | 299 |
| Subjects: | Interfaith relations, Interfaith relations, History of religion, Christianity, Christianity, History of religion, Church history, Christian theology, England |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A new analysis of the phenomenon of Judaizing Christianity in seventeenth-century England Among the proliferation of Puritan sects across England in the seventeenth century, a remarkable number began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. From circumcision to Sabbath-keeping and dietary laws, their actions led these movements were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers, with various motives proposed. Were these Judaizing steps an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Were they a by-product of Protestant apocalyptic tendencies? Were they a response to the changing status of Jews in Europe?In Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce shows that it was instead another aspect of Puritanism that led to this behaviour: the need to be recognised as a ''singular'', positively distinctive, Godly minority. This quest for demonstrable uniqueness as a form of assurance united the Judaizing groups with other Protestant movements, while the depiction of Judaism in Christian rhetoric at the time made them a peculiarly ideal model upon which to base the marks of their salvation. |
| Imprint Name: | James Clarke & Co Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | James Clarke & Co Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-24 |