æPractical DivinityÆ: The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham

by Parker,Kenneth L.

• ISBN13: 9781840142006
• ISBN10: 1840142006
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-07-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Richard Greenham was one of the most important and respected figures among the Elizabethan clergy. His contemporaries described him as the founder of a previously unknown pastoral art: the cure of cases of conscience. Despite his fame in the Elizabethan period as a model pastor, pioneer in reformed casuistry, and founder of one of the first rectory seminaries, scholars have made little use of his life and works in their study of Elizabethan religious life.This study restores Richard Greenham to the central place he held in the development of Elizabethan Reformed parochial ministry. The monograph-length introduction includes a biography, an analysis of his pastoral style, and a study of his approach to curing cases of conscience. The transcription of Rylands English Manuscript 524, cross-referenced with the published editions of the sayings, offers a useful source to scholars who wish to study the collecting and 'framing' process of the humanist pedagogical tradition. The selection of early published works includes Greenham's (unfinished) catechism, treatises on the Sabbath and marriage, and advice on reading scripture and educating children.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xiii
Part One Greenham's life and legacy
Introduction	3	(6)
A biographical sketch of Greenham's life	9	(22)
Greenham's legacy	31	(6)
The Greenham sayings in their literary and historical context	37	(22)
Greenham's pastoral ministry	59	(28)
The cure of afflicted consciences	87	(10)
The theological foundations of Greenham's cure of afflicted consciences	97	(24)
Another comment concerning the name `puritan'	121	(8)
Part Two The sayings of Richard Greenham
Rylands English Manuscript 524 (folios 1-72)	129	(134)
Editorial note	129	(5)
1581	134	(6)
1582	140	(81)
The acts and speaches of Mr G. 1584	221	(31)
A letter against hardnes of hart	252	(11)
Part Three Selected texts from Greenham's Works (1st edn, 1599)
Selected texts: an editor's introduction	263	(2)
`A short forme of Catechising'	265	(34)
`A large Treatise of the Sabboth'	299	(30)
`A Treatise of a Contract before Mariage'	329	(10)
`A Profitable Treatise, Containing a Direction for the reading and understanding of the holy Scriptures: by Master G.'	339	(8)
`Of the Good Education of Children'	347	(10)
Part Four Appendices
Appendix 1 Richard Greenham's printed works	357	(10)
Appendix 2 Comparison of `Grave Counsels' (1st edn, 1599), and Rylands English Manuscript 524	367	(4)
Select Bibliography	371	(14)
Index	385