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dc.contributor.advisorRhodes, Neil
dc.contributor.authorSharpe, Jesse David
dc.coverage.spatial285en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-16T15:49:25Z
dc.date.available2012-10-16T15:49:25Z
dc.date.issued2012-05
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3185
dc.description.abstractIn using the doctrine of the Incarnation as a lens to approach the devotional poetry of seventeenth-century Britain, ‘“And the Word was made flesh”: The Problem of the Incarnation in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry’ finds this central doctrine of Christianity to be a destabilising force in the religious controversies of the day. The fact that Roman Catholics, the Church of England, and Puritans all hold to the same belief in the Incarnation means that there is a central point of orthodoxy which allows poets from differing sects of Christianity to write devotional verse that is equally relevant for all churches. This creates a situation in which the more the writer focuses on the incarnate Jesus, the less ecclesiastically distinct their writings become and the more aware the reader is of how difficult it is to categorise poets by the sects of the day. The introduction historicises the doctrine of the Incarnation in Early Modern Europe through presenting statements of belief for the doctrine from reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldryk Zwingli in addition to the Roman Catholic decrees of the Council of Trent and the Church of England’s ‘39 Articles’. Additionally, there is a further focus on the Church of England provided through considering the writings of Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes amongst others. In the ensuing chapters, the devotional poetry of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, and Richard Crashaw is discussed in regards to its use of the Incarnation and incarnational imagery in orthodox though diverse manners. Their use of words to appropriate the Word, and their embrace of the flesh as they approach the divine shows the elastic and problematic nature of a religion founded upon God becoming human and the mystery that the Church allows it to remain.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subjectEarly modernen_US
dc.subjectRenaissanceen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectDevotional poetryen_US
dc.subjectIncarnationen_US
dc.subjectIncarnationalismen_US
dc.subjectDonne, Johnen_US
dc.subjectHerbert, Georgeen_US
dc.subjectHerrick, Roberten_US
dc.subjectLanyer, Aemiliaen_US
dc.subjectCrashaw, Richarden_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectSeventeenth centuryen_US
dc.subject.lccPR545.I64S5
dc.subject.lcshIncarnation in literature.en_US
dc.subject.lcshReligious poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticismen_US
dc.subject.lcshDevotional literature, English--History and criticismen_US
dc.title'And the Word was made flesh': the problem of the Incarnation in seventeenth-century devotional poetryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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