His position as a country parson required the renunciation of ambition and a new ideal of the character of holiness but in no way decreased his dedication to the Protestant linking of religion and enterprise.
George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2000
This work places George Herbert's writing and biography within the history of social and economic change in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on the works of Max Weber, Raymond Williams, and the Protestant preachers of the period, the author argues that the doctrine of vocation is the shaping principle of The Temple and the prose manual The Country Parson, which coordinate inward devotion with outward social role like the soul with the body. This form of early modern subjectivity is shown to be significantly at odds with the system of status and yet developed in order to preserve traditional models of community. The book demonstrates that Herbert s family shared his Protestant vision of the common good, which included innovations in agriculture and mining, colonization of the Americas, and a worldwide trade nexus. William Herbert, patron of Shakespeare and head of the Protestant faction at court and in Parliament, was also George Herbert s patron, and George s involvement with this faction is offered as the explanation for his lack of patronage from an increasingly Anglo-Catholic court.
His position as a country parson required the renunciation of ambition and a new ideal of the character of holiness but in no way decreased his dedication to the Protestant linking of religion and enterprise.
His position as a country parson required the renunciation of ambition and a new ideal of the character of holiness but in no way decreased his dedication to the Protestant linking of religion and enterprise.
- ISBN:
- 9780804729888
- 9780804729888
- Category:
- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-2000
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x140x28mm
- Weight:
- 0.48kg
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