The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus

James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

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Leo Damrosch

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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.

Author Biography:

Damrosch Leo: Leo Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University.

Release date NZ

February 5th, 1996

Author

Leo Damrosch

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Reprint 2013 ed.

Illustrations

Illustrations; 4 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

330

Dimensions

156x234x21

ISBN-13

9780674330948

Product ID

21748408

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