Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004474505
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9789004110090
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 84
Content:
This volume presents a critical edition of the immensely influential and popular first version of The Christian Directory , by the notorious Elizabethan Jesuit leader, Robert Persons. It was written during and immediately after the English Mission of 1580-1, which ended with the martyrdom of his companion Edmund Campion. Persons's work, originally entitled The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution , attempts to persuade the reader to be resolved in the service of God. It deals with the motives and obstacles to such resolution. This edition includes a full apparatus of the alterations made to Persons's work by the Edmund Bunny, whose Protestant edition became an Elizabethan bestseller. It will be particularly useful to historians of the Catholic reformation and students of early modern English prose
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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Acknowledgements /
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Short References /
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Introduction /
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The Summarie of the Christian Exercise, as it is Intended /
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An Advertisement to the Reader /
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To the Christian Reader Towchinge Two Editions of this Booke /
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An Induction to the Three Bookes Followinge /
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Chapter I Of the End and Partes of this Booke /
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Chapter II Howe Necessarie it is to Enter into Earnest Consideration and Meditation of Our Estate /
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Chapter III Of the Ende for Which Man was Created /
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Chapter IV Of the Ende of Man More in Particuler /
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Chapter V Of the Severe Accounpte that We Must Yelde to God of the Matters Aforesayed /
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Chapter VI A Consideration of the Nature of Sinne, and of a Sinner /
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Chapter VII An Other Consideration for the Further Justifyinge of Gades Judgementes Taken From the Majestie of God and His Benefites Towardes Us /
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Chapter VIII Of What Opinion and Feelinge We Shalbe, Towchinge These Matters, at the Tyme of Our Death /
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Chapter IX Of the Paines Appointed for Sinne After this Lyfe /
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Chapter X Of the Moste Honorable and Munificent Rewardes Proposed to All Them that Truelie Serve God /
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Chapter I Of Impedimentes that Lett Men From this Resolution: and First, of the Difficultie or Hardnesse, whiche Seemeth to Many to be in Vertuouse Lyfe /
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Chapter II Of the Second Impediment, Whiche is Persecution, Affliction, and Tribulation /
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Chapter III Of the Thyrd Impediment the Love of the World /
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Chapter IV Of the Fowerthe Impediment to Muche Presuming of the Mercie of God /
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Chapter V Of the Fyveth Impediment Delaye of Resolution /
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Chapter VI Of Three Other Impedimentes Slothe, Negligence, and Hardnes of Harte /
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Apparatus Criticus /
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Commentary /
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Appendix I Scriptural Index /
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Appendix II Patristic and Classical Index /
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Appendix III Luis de Granada /
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Index of Subjects /
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Index of People and Places /
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Studies in the History of Christian Thought /
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution Leiden : Brill, 1998 ISBN 9789004110090
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004474505
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