Disavowing Disability - Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation

Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Contexts and Connections; 3. Enabling 'Every Man'; 4. Disputing Disability, Conditioning Salvation; 5. Diversity, Inclusion(ism), Discipline; 6. Melancholy, Means, Ends; 7. Conclusion.

Summary

Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew McKendry
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108823128
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82312-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Religion & beliefs, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Disability: social aspects, Religion and beliefs, Literature: history and criticism, disability; religion; liberalism; melancholy; Richard Baxter