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Explores the role of the English theological scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) in the development of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and illustrates the contribution that laypeople and 'average believers' made to religious and cultural change, shifting critical attention away from the clerical and academic elites.
List of contents
- Introduction: Hugh Broughton, Now and Then
- PART I. CHRONOLOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
- 1: From Chronology to Theology
- 2: From Chronology to Translation
- 3: From Chronology to Genealogy
- PART II. CONTROVERSY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
- 4: Jewish Conversion in Europe and Constantinople
- 5: Theological Controversy in England and Geneva
- 6: Unrealized Ambitions: The New Testament
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Kirsten Macfarlane is Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her interests span early modern Europe and North America, lying at the intersection of religious, cultural, and intellectual history. She was previously an associate professor at the University of Oxford, where she also received her BA, MSt, and DPhil. Her research has been supported by fellowships from Trinity College, Cambridge; the Houghton Library; the Masachusetts Historical Society; the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; KU Leuven; and Lund University.
Summary
Explores the role of the English theological scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) in the development of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and illustrates the contribution that laypeople and 'average believers' made to religious and cultural change, shifting critical attention away from the clerical and academic elites.
Additional text
Every so often a book emerges that sheds light not only on a figure whose complexity of allegiances and commitments have eluded cogent analysis previously, but also advances the fields upon which the author seeks to offer scholarly interventions which, in this case, include early modern religious history -- with particular attention to England and Puritan studies -- and intellectual history -- with special focus on the history of scholarship: two discursive presences in our interpretation of the pre-modern past that have not always overlapped in terms of resources and analytical trajectories. Macfarlane's book accomplishes that rare feat.
