... reading with imitatio Christi to develop a specifically female mode of spirituality founded on love and energized by the spirit of the dissenting culture within which the author's theology is deeply embedded. Book to a Mother 's deployment of claustral allegory betrays a deep skepticism...

..., the nineteenth century represented the high watermark of triumphal Whig historiography that converged with confessional nostalgia and denominational history from Anglican as well as diverse dissenting traditions. Twentieth-century scholarship liberated us from such denominational straightjacketing. Recovering...

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.... The Poetics of Transub- stantiation: From Theology to Metaphor. Studies in European Cultural Tran- sition, vol. 27. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005. xiv, 181 pp. $79.95. Cessario, Romanus, O.P. A Short History of Thomism. Foreword by Ralph McInerny. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America...

.... The Poetics of Transub- stantiation: From Theology to Metaphor. Studies in European Cultural Tran- sition, vol. 27. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005. xiv, 181 pp. $79.95. Cessario, Romanus, O.P. A Short History of Thomism. Foreword by Ralph McInerny. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America...

... particulars of historical processes are perceived, interpreted, and occluded. They also carefully attend to the place of theology and its diverse traditions in these processes together with its relations to the political imaginary and practices driving what Eamon Duffy memorably calls “the stripping...

... earlier forms of dissent not only in scale and intensity but foremost in the intrinsically factious tendencies of Reformation thought. Reformation, for Gregory, is almost synonymous with the faith in sola scriptura common across otherwise disparate Protestant sects. Rather than assess...

... in part two of The Pilgrim’s Progress , particularly in the figure of Mercie, Bunyan offers up a new valuation of the exemplarist potentials of labor. Part two expands rather than contracts Bunyan’s exploration of the active life of dissent, reimagining questions of embodiment, habituation, imitation...

... “evidence” for the decline of concern with and commitment to religious truth within the secular uni- versity, which troubles Gregory deeply. Gregory registers strong dissent to the contemporary intellectual zeitgeist in many Religious Studies depart- ments or History of Religions discourse where...

... scholarship.1 By “revision- ist Reformation scholarship,” Shuger means a relatively small slice of the vast scholarship on the Reformation.2 She takes aim at that scholarship on the Reformation in Britain, produced in the last twenty or so years, which dissents from the Whig, Protestant-­triumphalist...

... • Asceticism, Dissent, and the Tudor State: Richard Whitford’s Rule for Lay Householders Amy Appleford Boston University Boston, Massachusetts Richard Whitford...

... or dissent they felt from the culture of the texts they explicated. Such critique was fashioned primarily from deconstruction and Geertzian anthropology, allied to a Foucauldian account of power, an Althus- serian characterization of institutions, and a psychoanalytical account of subjectivity. It came...

... in 1619 Fletcher and Massinger's Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Synod of Dort English Reformed theology international politics In May 1619, the eyes and ears of Londoners were fixed on news from abroad. With the German electors preparing to crown a new Holy Roman emperor...

... Wild, eds. Cultures of Com- munication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. The UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, xi, pp.; gs., color plates. Titone, Fabrizio, ed. Disciplined Dissent: Strategies of Non- Confrontational Protest...

...”; and if “philosophy has dramatically failed” that is merely an epiphenomenon of the overall “failure of confessional Europe . . . to cre- ate moral communities free of religious dissent.”2 Even a rather strong critic of contemporary liberal-­secular social theory and practice (as I take myself...

..., they engendered a kind of bold, argumentative spirit toward this “most proven edition of the scriptures itself, which should be the bond of peace, the unity of faith, the nexus of charity, the consensus of dissent, and the most certain norm in matters of doubt.”7 The bull condemned in advance anyone who...

... the manu- script’s component parts.13 The selectivity and complexity that characterize many Wycliffite Bible manuscripts do not affirm a particular ideology or demonstrate that a mainstream audience adapted Wycliffite translation for orthodox purposes. Signs of dissent can be seen in books of diverse...

...Derek Pearsall This essay takes up Nicholas Watson's important and influential article, “Visions of Inclusion: Universal Salvation and Vernacular Theology in Pre-Reformation England,” and argues that, for William Langland at least, the promise of universal salvation is at best ambiguous. The essay...

... above the table where Mary's father is being served a meal. Venetian Counter-Reformation art Benedetto Caliari imagery of lactating Virgin miracles theology and dissent Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 ...

... dimensions of the body in Julian's theology. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Julian of Norwich A Revelation of Love the body and corporeality Eucharist theology • Medieval Corporeality and the Eucharistic...