Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643-63: the case of Alexander Griffith*
Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643-63: the case of Alexander Griffith*
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威尔士边境的传教和政治，1643-63 年：亚历山大·格里菲斯的案例*
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10.1093/hisres/htaa035
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发表时间：
2021
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0.4
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Bowen L
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Bowen L
本文通过考察亚历山大格里菲斯的案例，探讨了世纪中期主教身份和态度的性质和发展。格里菲斯被历史学家认为是一个不屈不挠的“圣公会教徒”，一个顽固的保皇党的典范，一个在17世纪40年代和50年代在威尔士抵抗清教徒实验的先锋。然而，格里菲斯的布道书在福尔杰莎士比亚图书馆的发现，对他的职业生涯的性质和他的意见的发展投下了不同的光。格里菲思的布道揭示了他在17世纪40年代与当地长老会教徒的和解，甚至帮助领导了他们将公众崇拜指南引入威尔士和游行的运动。布道书提供了一个新的和更细致入微的阅读的机会，他出版的众多小册子对委员会的传播福音在威尔士在1650年代。文章认为，他的布道和出版的作品都揭示了格里菲斯是激进分裂主义者的无情对手，但他愿意适应和适应温和的穆斯林政权。他的立场在复辟时发生了转变，当时他在两次高调的巡回布道中表达了他的信念，即《统一法》为抵御激进宗教和政治解体的幽灵提供了最好的辩护。本文揭示了格里菲斯是一个更重要的人物比一般公认的，他的宗教和政治立场更复杂比以前的研究所允许的。
This article considers the nature and development of episcopalian identities and attitudes during the mid-seventeenth century by examining the case of Alexander Griffith. Griffith has been known to historians as an unbending ‘Anglican’, an exemplar of obdurate royalism and a man who was in the vanguard of resistance to the puritan experiments in Wales during the 1640s and 1650s. However, the discovery of Griffith’s sermon book in the Folger Shakespeare Library throws a different light on the nature of his career and the development of his opinions. Griffith’s sermons reveal that he made accommodations with local Presbyterians in the 1640s and even helped head-up their campaign to introduce theDirectory for Public Worshipinto Wales and the Marches. The sermon book provides the opportunity for a new and more nuanced reading of the numerous tracts he published against the Commission for the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales during the 1650s. The article argues that both his sermons and published works reveal Griffith as an implacable opponent of radical separatists, but that he was willing to accommodate with and adapt to moderate parliamentarian regimes. His position shifted at the Restoration when he articulated his conviction in two high profile assize sermons that the Act of Uniformity provided the best defence against the spectre of radical religion and political dissolution. This article reveals that Griffith was a more important figure than has generally been acknowledged and that his religious and political positions were more complex than previous studies have allowed.