Volume 60 of Studies in Church History examines the theme of hypocrisy in the Church. This theme touches upon tensions at the heart of Christian teaching and experience: the distance between ideal and lived practice, and conflicts between sincerity of faith and the demands of society and the state. To explore the place of hypocrisy in Christian thought is to highlight issues of deception, dissimulation and double standards rich themes in Christian history and discourse, encompassing a wide range of topics such as casuistry and priestcraft. The articles in this volume raise questions about the importance of external ritual in relation to internal belief and of dualist approaches to religion in which evil has no conceivable place in the good. They highlight anxieties around the discernment of sin and virtue and explore historical responses to the ethical question of whether lies and deception can ever be deployed for good ends.
This volume offers fascinating insights into the understudied question of the role of hypocrisy in the Church, a theme that touches upon tensions at the heart of Christian teaching and experience: the distance between ideal and lived practice, and conflicts between sincerity of faith and the demands of society and the state.
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This volume offers fascinating insights into the understudied question of the role of hypocrisy in the Church.
Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of
Illustrations; Introduction Catherine Cubitt;
1. The Devil as 'Father of
Lies': Ideas of Diabolical Deceit in the Donatist Controversy Sophie
Lunn-Rockliffe;
2. 'In Defiance of his Cloth': Monastic (Im)piety in Late
Antique Egypt (President's Prize) Paula Tutty;
3. Ostriches, Spiders' Webs
and Antichrist: Hypocrisy in Writings of Pope Gregory the Great and
Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (Presidential Address) Catherine Cubitt;
4.
Cannibal, Scorpion, Horse, Owl: Institutional Hypocrites and the Early
Fourteenth-Century Church John Sabapathy;
5. False Religion and Hypocrisy in
Signorelli's Antichrist Konstantinos Gravanis;
6. 'God really hated the
hypocrites': Hypocrisy and Anti-clerical Rhetoric in the Early Lutheran
Reformation Charlotte Methuen;
7. Hypocrisy and Humour in the English
Reformation Ethan H. Shagan;
8. Prudentes sicut serpentes: Dissimulation and
Concealment in Japanese and Chinese Missions in the Seventeenth Century Iveta
Naklįdalovį;
9. Hypocrisy, 'Prudence', 'Conscience' in Administration: The
Congregation of Bishops and Regulars in Seventeenth-Century Italy Simone
Maghenzani;
10. 'See sincerity sparkle in thy practice': Antidotes to
Hypocrisy in British Print Sermons, 164095 Anna Pravdica;
11. Providence and
Puritan Deceit: John Davenport's Forgery Revisited Christy Wang;
12. 'A Herd
of snivelling, grinning Hypocrites': Religious Hypocrisy in Restoration Drama
David Fletcher;
13. Laughing at Hypocrisy: The Turncoats (1711), Visual
Culture and Dissent in Early Eighteenth-Century England Adam Morton;
14. The
Problems of Performing Piety in some Exeter Dissenting Sermons c.16601745
David Parry;
15. The Rev. John Stainsby and the 'diffusion of Gospel truth'
in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (Kennedy Prize) Alice Kinghorn;
16.
Dissimulation as an Editorial Strategy in the Life of William Wilberforce
Mark Smith;
17. Bishops, Brothels and Byron: Hypocrisy and the 1844 Brothel
Suppression Bill Emily Baylor;
18. Cavalier South vs Puritan North? Hypocrisy
and Identity in the American Civil War Edward G. Manger;
19. Enjoying what
comes naturally: The Church of England and Sexuality in the 1930s Mark D.
Chapman;
20. Humanity Defined, Hypocrisy Defied: Sacralizing the Black
Freedom Struggle, 193060 Dennis C. Dickerson;
21. Vocation, Hypocrisy and
Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England Peter
Webster;
22. OutRage! Hypocrisy, Episcopacy and Homosexuality in 1990s
England William Whyte.
