Inspiration and Institution in Christian History
Inspiration and Institution in Christian History
Alec Ryrie , University of Durham
Andrew Spicer , Oxford Brookes University
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GBPSince the apostolic age, Christian churches have seen a constant dialectic between inspiration and institution: how the ungoverned spontaneity of Spirit-led religion negotiates its way through laws, structures and communities. If institutional frameworks are absent or insufficient, new, creative and dynamic expressions of Christianity can disappear or collapse into disorder almost as quickly as they have flared up. If those frameworks are excessively rigid or punitive, they can often quench the spirit of any new movements. This volume explores the interplay between inspirational movements and institutional structures throughout Christianity's history, examining how the paradox of inspiration and institution has been negotiated from the ancient world to the modern era, tracing how different Christian movements have striven to hold these two vital aspects of their faith together, often finding creative or unexpected ways to institutionalize inspiration or to breathe new life into their institutions.
- This volume brings together articles by seventeen scholars of different aspects of Christianity's history, including Sam Brewitt-Taylor, Josef Lōssl, Teresa Morgan, Alec Ryrie and Neslihan Şenocak
- This volume explores the often paradoxical interplay between inspiration and institution in the Christian church
- Contributions to this volume cover a diverse range of topics, from heresy and the law in late Antiquity to the Anglican Church in South China
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July 2021Hardback
9781316514801
398 pages
223 × 142 × 26 mm
0.63kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction Alec Ryrie
- 1. Two aspects of early Christian faith Teresa Morgan
- 2. A clash between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic women prophets and theological education in the second-century church Josef Lōssl
- 3. From institution to inspiration: why the Friars Minor became Franciscans Neslihan Şenocak
- 4. Trinitarian hagiography in late Medieval England: rewriting St Robert of Knaresborough in Latin verse Hazel J. Hunter Blair
- 5. A church 'without stain or wrinkle': the reception and application of Donatist arguments in debates over priestly purity Helen Parish
- 6. The institutionalization of the congregational singing of metrical psalms in the Elizabethan Reformation Andrew Poxon
- 7. Inspiration and institution in Catholic missionary martyrdom accounts: Japan and New France, 1617–49 Rhiannon Teather
- 8. The Jesuitesses in the bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters' participation in the Dutch book trade, 1650–1750 (Kennedy Prize) Elise Watson
- 9. Seeking the seekers (Presidential Address) Alec Ryrie
- 10. 'A blessed and glorious work of God, … attended with some irregularity': managing Methodist revivals, c.1740–1800 (President's Prize) Clive Murray Norris
- 11. Continuing revelation and institutionalization: Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson and charismatic leadership in antebellum America Claudia Jetter
- 12. Visions and realities in Hong Kong Anglican Mission Schools, 1849–1941 Tim Yung
- 13. Led by the spirit and the Church: Finland's licensed Lutheran lay preachers, c.1870–1923 Matleena Sopanen
- 14. The early years of the Christian endeavour movement: innovation and consolidation at a local level, 1881–1914 Roger Ottewill
- 15. Inspiration and institution in 1960s Anglican radicalism: the cases of Nick Stacey and John Robinson Sam Brewitt-Taylor
- 16. 'Old-time religion in a new-fashioned way': the ministry of 'Billy' Richards, 1943–74 Grant Masom
- 17. The Church of America and the Heresy of Peace Dominic Erdozain.
