Inspiration and Institution in Christian History: Volume 57

This volume explores the interplay between inspirational movements and institutional structures throughout Christianity's history.

Charlotte Methuen (Edited by), Alec Ryrie (Edited by), Andrew Spicer (Edited by)

9781316514801, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2021

398 pages
22.3 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.63 kg

Since the apostolic age, Christian churches have seen a constant dialectic between inspiration and institution: how the ungoverned spontaneity of Spirit-led religion negotiates its way through laws, structures and communities. If institutional frameworks are absent or insufficient, new, creative and dynamic expressions of Christianity can disappear or collapse into disorder almost as quickly as they have flared up. If those frameworks are excessively rigid or punitive, they can often quench the spirit of any new movements. This volume explores the interplay between inspirational movements and institutional structures throughout Christianity's history, examining how the paradox of inspiration and institution has been negotiated from the ancient world to the modern era, tracing how different Christian movements have striven to hold these two vital aspects of their faith together, often finding creative or unexpected ways to institutionalize inspiration or to breathe new life into their institutions.

Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction Alec Ryrie
1. Two aspects of early Christian faith Teresa Morgan
2. A clash between Paideia and Pneuma? Ecstatic women prophets and theological education in the second-century church Josef L?ssl
3. From institution to inspiration: why the Friars Minor became Franciscans Neslihan ?enocak
4. Trinitarian hagiography in late Medieval England: rewriting St Robert of Knaresborough in Latin verse Hazel J. Hunter Blair
5. A church 'without stain or wrinkle': the reception and application of Donatist arguments in debates over priestly purity Helen Parish
6. The institutionalization of the congregational singing of metrical psalms in the Elizabethan Reformation Andrew Poxon
7. Inspiration and institution in Catholic missionary martyrdom accounts: Japan and New France, 1617–49 Rhiannon Teather
8. The Jesuitesses in the bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters' participation in the Dutch book trade, 1650–1750 (Kennedy Prize) Elise Watson
9. Seeking the seekers (Presidential Address) Alec Ryrie
10. 'A blessed and glorious work of God, … attended with some irregularity': managing Methodist revivals, c.1740–1800 (President's Prize) Clive Murray Norris
11. Continuing revelation and institutionalization: Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson and charismatic leadership in antebellum America Claudia Jetter
12. Visions and realities in Hong Kong Anglican Mission Schools, 1849–1941 Tim Yung
13. Led by the spirit and the Church: Finland's licensed Lutheran lay preachers, c.1870–1923 Matleena Sopanen
14. The early years of the Christian endeavour movement: innovation and consolidation at a local level, 1881–1914 Roger Ottewill
15. Inspiration and institution in 1960s Anglican radicalism: the cases of Nick Stacey and John Robinson Sam Brewitt-Taylor
16. 'Old-time religion in a new-fashioned way': the ministry of 'Billy' Richards, 1943–74 Grant Masom
17. The Church of America and the Heresy of Peace Dominic Erdozain.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]