Product Description: With the use of original research and recent historical findings, this book views the Jacobean Church of England positively in its own terms--not through the biased outlook of the Laudians who succeeded it. Herbert and Donne share views on preaching, church discipline, and the spiritual life with conforming puritans like Sibbes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The essays in this volume relate in different ways to a central proposition: that the word-centeredness of the Tudor-Stuart Church of England had powerful and subtle effects on the literature produced during and immediately after the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuarts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Little has been said about the relationship of Herbert’s writings to those of John Calvin, yet the latter were abundant and influential in Herbert’s Church of England. Accordingly Picturing Religious Experience studies Herbert’s poetry in relation to those writings, particularly regarding “spiritual conflicts,” which the poet himself said would be found depicted in his book of poems...read more