Reviews for Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740

The average rating for Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-10 00:00:00 Jason Jankowski I've only read the "Legatine Constitutions of Cardinal Pole" within this volume, but they've proved highly useful for my chapter on how Mary and her officials enforced conformity through religion. As the official statement of doctrine on the seven sacraments and reforms for the reinstated Catholic Church in England, the "Constitutions" provided me with examples to pair with the visitation articles and injunctions to build a framework of that enforcement.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-25 00:00:00 Anastasios Zachariadis This is more of a polemical tract against the Church of England by somebody who rage quit, rather than an objective study seeking truth. It is part of a cottage industry of writings which claims that if only the Church of England had even more homosexuality within it, then the general public would be suddenly lining up down the street to take their seats in the pews again. This despite the fact that there is no evidence that homosexuality is actually popular in England, rather than being politely tolerated, nor that it has anything at all to do with why the average English man and woman do not attend Church anymore. We're shown a struggle between two quite ugly elements "liberals" and "evangelicals", while completely ignoring what the general public like about the Church; a sense of national tradition, community, continuity, place, Englishness, the Laudian High Church aesthetics, charming choral evensong, the lack of fanaticism (whether "liberal"-bolshevik or judeo-"evangelical").