Description
Book SynopsisThis special issue of the
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is dedicated to Peter Nockles. An expert on the Oxford Movement and the religious history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nockles was employed at the John Rylands Library from 1979 to 2016. During this time he extended his scholarly generosity and friendship to countless researchers. The issue features articles on a range of topics connected to Peter’s scholarship and networks, including the Church of England (particularly High Churchmanship and the Oxford Movement), Catholicism, Methodism and Church-State conflict relating to the Church of Ireland.
Trade Review'Altogether, this is a volume wide in scope and rich in insights, well deserving of a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the theology, history, and trajectory of both the Anglican and Methodist traditions.'
Mark Smith, Wesley and Methodist Studies
'It is a fitting tribute to a much appreciated and long-standing contributor to the ecclesiastical history scene, and its editors are to be commended on its conception and birth.'
Frances Knight, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society
-- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction – William Gibson and Geordan Hammond
Engines of Tyranny: The Court Sermons of James II – William Gibson
Engraved Clerical Portraiture in England, c.1660-1850: An Introductory Survey – Richard Sharp
Thomas Townson and High Church Continuities and Connections in Eighteenth-Century England – Nigel Aston
George Horne, the Hutchinsonian – Derya Gurses Tarbuck
Relational Reading and Imagined Religious Community in Catherine Livingston’s Evangelical Spirituality – Rachel Cope
Disappearing Women: The Gendered Politics of Publication of Mary Fletcher’s Auto/Biography – Carol Blessing
Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity: Catholicism and Nonconformity in Nineteenth-Century ‘Jewish Conversion’ Novels – Andrew Crome
The Spirituality of the Wesleyan Methodists of Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era – David Bebbington
Dissolving the ‘Sacred Union’? The Disestablishment of the Church in Ireland – Stewart J. Brown
Continuity and Development: Looking for Typological Treasure with William Jones of Nayland and E. B. Pusey – George Westhaver
Henry Manning’s Journey to Roman Catholicism – Kenneth Parker
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’: Cardinal Manning and the Jewish People – James Pereiro
