The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

by Leo Damrosch

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In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader--second only to George Fox in the nascent movement--rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period.

Damrosch gives...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674330943

ISBN13:9780674330948

Release Date:February 1996

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:330 Pages

Weight:1.43 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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17th Century Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Christian Books & Bibles Church History England Ethnic & National Europe

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