This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. It engages with the myth of International Protestantism, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory.
This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. It engages with the myth of International Protestantism, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory.
Simone Maghenzani is Dame Marilyn Strathern Lecturer in History, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Stefano Villani is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Section 1: Missionary Models 1. 'One World is not enough': the 'myth' of Roman Catholicism as a 'World Religion' 2. The Jesuits have shed much blood for Christ': Early Modern Protestants and the Problem of Catholic Overseas Missions Section 2: The Origins of Global Protestantism 3. (Re)making Ireland British: Conversion and Civility in a Neglected 1643 Treatise 4. Charting the 'Progress of Truth': Quaker Missions and the Topography of Dissent in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe 5. The English and the Italian Bible Section 3: Missions and Church Unifications in the Age of the Enlightenment 6. "True Catholic Unity": The Church of England and the Project for Gallican Union, 1717-1719 7. "Promoting the Common Interest of Christ" H.W. Ludolf's 'impartial' Projects and the Beginnings of the SPCK 8. Between Anti-popery and European Missions: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Networks Section 4: A British Missionary Land 9. The Evangelical Transformation of British Protestantism for Mission 10. The London Jews' Society and the Roots of Premillenialism, 1809-1829 11. Missions on the Fringes of Europe: British Protestants and the Orthodox Churches, c. 1800-1850 Section 5: Making Propaganda, Making Nations 12. Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882 13. The Land of Calvin and Voltaire: British Missionaries in Nineteenth-century Paris
Introduction Section 1: Missionary Models 1. 'One World is not enough': the 'myth' of Roman Catholicism as a 'World Religion' 2. The Jesuits have shed much blood for Christ': Early Modern Protestants and the Problem of Catholic Overseas Missions Section 2: The Origins of Global Protestantism 3. (Re)making Ireland British: Conversion and Civility in a Neglected 1643 Treatise 4. Charting the 'Progress of Truth': Quaker Missions and the Topography of Dissent in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe 5. The English and the Italian Bible Section 3: Missions and Church Unifications in the Age of the Enlightenment 6. "True Catholic Unity": The Church of England and the Project for Gallican Union, 1717-1719 7. "Promoting the Common Interest of Christ" H.W. Ludolf's 'impartial' Projects and the Beginnings of the SPCK 8. Between Anti-popery and European Missions: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Networks Section 4: A British Missionary Land 9. The Evangelical Transformation of British Protestantism for Mission 10. The London Jews' Society and the Roots of Premillenialism, 1809-1829 11. Missions on the Fringes of Europe: British Protestants and the Orthodox Churches, c. 1800-1850 Section 5: Making Propaganda, Making Nations 12. Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882 13. The Land of Calvin and Voltaire: British Missionaries in Nineteenth-century Paris
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