Jewish Christians in Puritan England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish Christians--England--History--17th century.

Jewish Christians.

Puritans--England--History--17th century.

Puritans.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Christianity.

Interfaith relations.

Judaism.

England.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

In the seventeenth century, in England, a remarkable number of small religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Why did this happen? Was it an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Was it a by-product of the Protestant apocalyptic tradition? Was it a response to the changing status of the Jews in Europe? In Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce argues that Puritan Judaizing was in fact an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a 'singular,' positively distinctive, and Godly minority. -- back cover.

Contents:

Singularity and Puritanism

Judaizing and singularity

"A Jewish faccion:' Anti-legalism, Judaizing, and the Traskites

Thomas Totney, Judaizing, and England's exodus

The Tillamites, Judaizing, and the 'gospel work of separation'

Conclusion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781725261426

1725261421