Format:
1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
,
illustrations, map, facsimiles
ISBN:
9780227900895
,
0227900898
,
9780227900901
Content:
A biography of Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637) and his family with a focus on his background, his education and experiences that shaped that ministry as well as the circumstances that brought the family to the village of Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire. Avoiding the hagiographic tone adopted by Ferrar's biographers, Joyce Ransome shows how the search for community was central to his life and has therefore become the unifying theme around which she has constructed his biography. br〉. For its fresh prospective on the unique Little Gidding that Ferrar created, this book will appeal to both an academ
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Formative years : 'the time of his ingathering' -- The new household at Little Gidding : 'united not only in cohabitation but in hartes' -- Enlarging the community : the 'web of friendship' -- Voluntarism and the wider mission : 'a light upon a hill could not be hid' -- Temperance and tensions : "frayltie & fears' -- Harmonies royal : 'rarities in their kind' -- Nicholas posthumous.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781283866279
Language:
English
Bookmarklink
