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Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century. Spanning the period from the English Revolution to the Glorious Revolution, and beyond, the contributors examine the social, political, and religious character of England's 'gathered' churches and reformed parishes: how pastors and their congregations interacted; how Dissenters related to their meetings as religious communities; and what the experience of church life was like for ordinary members as well as their ministers, including notably John Owen and Richard Baxter alongside less well-known figures, such as Ebenezer Chandler.
Moving beyond the religious experience of the solitary individual, often exemplified by conversion, Church Life redefines the experience of Dissent, concentrating instead on the collective concerns of a communally-centred church life through a wide spectrum of issues: from questions of liberty and pastoral reform to matters of church discipline and respectability. With a substantial introduction that puts into context the key concepts of 'church life' and the 'Dissenting experience', the contributors offer fresh ways of understanding Protestant Dissent in seventeenth-century England: through differences in ecclesiology and pastoral theory, and via the buildings in which Dissent was nurtured to the building-up of Dissent during periods of civil war, persecution, and revolution. They draw on a broad range of printed and archival materials: from the minutes of the Westminster Assembly to the manuscript church books of early Dissenting congregations.
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Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page, and Joel Halcomb: Introduction: Gathered Church Life and the Experience of Dissent
1: Joel Halcomb: Godly Order and the Trumpet of Defiance: The Politics of Congregational Church Life during the English Revolution
2: Elliot Vernon: Godly Pastors and their Congregations in Mid-Seventeenth-Century London
3: Kathleen Lynch: 'Letting a Room in London-House': A Place for Dissent in Civil War London
4: Chad Van Dixhoorn: God's Physicians: Models of Pastoral Care at the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653
5: Polly Ha: The Freedom of Association and Ecclesiastical Independence
6: Crawford Gribben: The Experience of Dissent: John Owen and Congregational Life in Revolutionary and Restoration England
7: N. H. Keeble: The Reformed Pastor as Nonconformist: Richard Baxter After 1662
8: Ann Hughes: Print and Pastoral Identity: Presbyterian Pastors Negotiate the Restoration
9: Michael Davies: Life After Bunyan: Ebenezer Chandler and the Bedford Congregation, 1689-1710
10: Anne Dunan-Page: 'Not Keeping One's Place in the Church': The Disaffected Dissenters
