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A Continuation Of The Account Of The Ministers, Lecturers, Masters And Fellows Of Colleges, And Schoolmasters, Who Were Ejected And Silenced After The

A Continuation Of The Account Of The Ministers, Lecturers, Masters And Fellows Of Colleges, And Schoolmasters, Who Were Ejected And Silenced After The

Calamy, Edmund

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Biographies GeneralReligion General British History

ISBN10: 9354448429
ISBN13: 9789354448423
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 5 2021
Pages: 652
Weight: 2.08
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Names matter. So do scars. These lives were not footnotes. Edmund Calamy's A Continuation of the Account is a monumental work of church history nonfiction that patiently restores the stories of English nonconformist ministers, lecturers, college fellows and schoolmasters expelled or silenced after the Restoration and under the Act of Uniformity 1662. Drawing on painstaking enquiry, Calamy preserves biographical sketches, sufferings, and local contexts, creating a biographical reference work that reveals the human cost of Restoration England church politics and the persecution of dissenters. Written in the wake of the English Civil War and the settlement that followed, Calamy's narrative stands at the crossroads of religious persecution history and political memory. He not only catalogues the ejected clergy, but also engages critically with Dr Walker's attempt to recover sequestered clergy between 1640 and 1660 and with Dr Bennet's Essay on the 39 Articles of Religion, setting Church and Dissent side by side in their competing claims of persecution. The result is an indispensable nonconformist martyrology collection: vivid local detail, careful documentation, and an unflinching view of conscience at odds with power, essential reading for church history scholars and for seminary students. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, this edition opens a major monument of Edmund Calamy church history to an audience of researchers, theologians, and classic-literature collectors drawn to English civil war clergy and their contested legacy.

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