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- catalog abstract ""It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century. The uses, or scripture practices, singled out, relate both to his position as an 'Anglican survivalist' during the Commonwealth and to his acceptance of George Herbert's task of writing 'true hymns': his reading of the Genesis story of Jacob as an analogue for his own experiences as a Christian and as an image of the true Church in the 1650s; his framing of Silex Scintillans as an act of thanksgiving modelled on Hezekiah's song in Isaiah; his construction of a paraliturgical 'rule' of holy living; his exposure of the 'false prophets' of the Last Days prophesied by Christ; and his profoundly scriptural rejection of the fraud (as he saw it) of millenarian religion."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12268426.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century. The uses, or scripture practices, singled out, relate both to his position as an 'Anglican survivalist' during the Commonwealth and to his acceptance of George Herbert's task of writing 'true hymns': his reading of the Genesis story of Jacob as an analogue for his own experiences as a Christian and as an image of the true Church in the 1650s; his framing of Silex Scintillans as an act of thanksgiving modelled on Hezekiah's song in Isaiah; his construction of a paraliturgical 'rule' of holy living; his exposure of the 'false prophets' of the Last Days prophesied by Christ; and his profoundly scriptural rejection of the fraud (as he saw it) of millenarian religion."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-262) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction : Scripture Uses. -- Patriarchs and Pilgrims. -- Hezekiah and the Hand of Heaven. -- Holy Living, Hourly Living. -- True Lights and New Lights : Vaughan's 'White Sunday' and the False Prophets of the 1650s. -- Perfection Postponed.".
- catalog extent "xii, 271 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Henry Vaughan's Silex scintillans.".
- catalog identifier "0198187564".
- catalog isFormatOf "Henry Vaughan's Silex scintillans.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Henry Vaughan's Silex scintillans.".
- catalog subject "821/.4 21".
- catalog subject "Bible In literature.".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR3742.S43 W47 2001".
- catalog subject "Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695 Religion.".
- catalog subject "Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695. Silex scintillans.".
- catalog subject "Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695 Religion.".
- catalog subject "Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695. Silex scintillans.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : Scripture Uses. -- Patriarchs and Pilgrims. -- Hezekiah and the Hand of Heaven. -- Holy Living, Hourly Living. -- True Lights and New Lights : Vaughan's 'White Sunday' and the False Prophets of the 1650s. -- Perfection Postponed.".
- catalog title "Henry Vaughan's Silex scintillans : scripture uses / Philip West.".
- catalog type "text".