The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 140254639
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199683710
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations.
Ledger-Lomas acted with Tim Larsen as editor of this volume. In addition to supplying two subject chapters – on the Unitarian and Presbyterian tradition in Great Britain and Ireland and on ministers and ministerial training throughout the world as a whole – editing all of the other chapters and seeing the volume through production, he solo authored the introduction to the volume. This was a particularly important task because it not only provides a synoptic overview of the book’s contents, but makes a complex argument for their coherence by suggesting that ‘Dissent’ remains an analytically useful umbrella term even for communities and places which lacked established churches.
The volume has been well received to date, with the leading historian of religion and Empire Hilary Carey describing it in History as an ‘exemplary demonstration of effective collaborative scholarship on a religious movement of central importance to the era it covers and of continuing importance to global Christianity’.
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