Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism
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Lewis, S., Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism, 2020, Huntington Library Quarterly, 82, 3Abstract:
William Mason (1719–1791), an Anglican evangelical layman
of Bermondsey, London, published extensively on theological issues
to educate the Anglican laity in the Church of England’s Reformed tradition.
Despite the popularity of his writings, Mason has been neglected by
scholars. By providing the first large-scale examination of Mason’s works,
Simon Lewis shows that eighteenth-century Calvinist evangelicalism benefited
from an active and vocal laity, whose evangelistic strategies were not
limited to preaching; provides a model for how scholars can integrate piety
and polemic in their explorations of religious print culture; and enhances
our understanding of the laity’s engagement in theological controversies.
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Grant Number
Irish Research Council (IRC)
15299
Historical Society of the Episcopal Church
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Author: Lewis, Simon
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Irish Research Council (IRC)Historical Society of the Episcopal Church
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Huntington Library Quarterly;82;
3;
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Evangelical Anglicanism, Church of England, Devotion, Methodism, Polemic, CalvinismSubject (TCD):
Ecclesiastical History , Irish and British History 1500-1800 , print cultureDOI:
https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2019.0020Metadata
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