Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.
Trade Review"In a powerful afterword, Gay speaks to the continued link between prayer and polemic in our post-secular times." -- Alison Shell *
The Times Literary Supplement *
"The book effectively produces a picture of faithful spiritual writing across emerging divisions, and the chief contribution of the book is the way it shows how intimate the division was: how congregations and poets were all praying the Lord’s Prayer, yet in ways marked in contradistinction." -- Paul Dyck, Canadian Mennonite University *
Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Lancelot Andrewes and George Herbert: Where Most Pray 2. Jeremy Taylor: The Blessing of Unity 3. John Milton: The True Model 4. John Bunyan: The Nameless Instrument Afterword Bibliography
