252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly disputation between fundamentally opposing and oftentimes antagonistic Catholic, Protestant and nonconformist puritan divines. Introducing a form of discourse hitherto neglected in studies of religious controversy, the volume works to rehabilitate a body of material only... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The culture of controversy; The disputation process; Disputation exploited?; Disputation applied; Disputation distinguished; Disputation opposed; Determination; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Joshua Rodda is an early career researcher and tutor in the History Department at the University of Nottingham, where in 2012 he completed a doctoral dissertation on public religious disputation in post-Reformation England. This, his first book, represents the culmination of more than five years’ research, speaking and publication on the topic.
'Rodda has done a fine job, and raised various questions for further study or, indeed, an edition of extant texts of disputations as a handbook. The monograph because of its terse style demands careful reading, but the effort is worthwhile.' Journal of Jesuit Studies
