The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 November 2017
- ISBN 9780198808718
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 242x164x28 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 halftones 0
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Short description:
The volume highlights how the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were leading apostolic texts during the early modern period in England, and the importance of Johannine theology to early modern religious poetry.
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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism.
In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John's mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through the use of dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.
Aligning the works of devotional writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with crucial extracts from the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of John, and drawing on a wide corpus of biblical commentary from Augustine to Cranmer, Cefalu's work manages to be weighty, not overwhelming.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Johannine Renaissance
The Flesh Profiteth Nothing: John 6, the Bread of Life, and Devotional Poetry of Belief
Noli Me Tangere and the Reception of Mary Magdalene in Early Modern England
Spiritual Comfort and Assurance: The Role of the Paraclete in Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Polemic
God is Love: Johannine Agape and Early Modern Devotional Poetry
Johannine Dualism, Antinomianism, and Early Modern English Radical Dissent
Discipleship Misunderstanding and Johannine Irony in the Poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
Afterword: The Johannine Enchantment of the World
Selected Bibliography: Primary Works
Selected Bibliography: Secondary Works
