The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus : James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit / Leo Damrosch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damrosch, Leo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.

HISTORY / United States / General.

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

Quakers--England--Biography.

RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker.

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.

HISTORY / United States / General.

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

Quakers--England--Biography.

RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader--second only to George Fox in the nascent movement--rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period. Damrosch gives a clear picture of the origins and early development of the Quaker movement, elucidating the intellectual foundations of Quaker theology. A number of central issues come into sharp relief, including gender symbolism and the role of women, belief in miraculous cures, and--particularly in relation to the meaning of the entry into Bristol--"signs of the in-dwelling spirit." Damrosch's account of the trial and savage punishment of Nayler for blasphemy exposes the politics of the Puritan response, the limits to Cromwellian religious liberalism. The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus is at once a study of antinomian religious thought, of an exemplary individualist movement that suddenly found itself obliged to impose order, and of the ways in which religious and political ideas become intertwined in a period of crisis. It is also a vivid portrait of a fascinating man.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Quotations

Introduction: Receding Echoes of a Cause Célèbre

1 The Quaker Menace

2 God in Man: Theology and Life

3 Nayler's Sign and Its Meanings

4 Trial and Crucifixion

5 Aftermath

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-33097-8

OCLC:

1013941757