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.

Conforming To The Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church Before Laud

Literature & Fiction

Doerksen, Daniel W.

British & Irish

Bucknell University Press

PICTURING RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE:GEORGE: George Herbert, Calvin, And The Scriptures

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. Much more than is generally realized, Calvin wrote about the experience of living the Christian life – also Herbert’s subject in many of his poems. Altogether, this study maintains that Herbert owes to his religious orientation not just themes or details, but an impulse to observe and depict the inner life, and scriptural patterns which significantly contribute to the substance and literary excellence of The Temple.

Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures

History & Criticism

University of Delaware Press

University of Delaware

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