Jewish Christians in Puritan England

By Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

Book Overview

In the seventeenth century, in England, a remarkable number of small religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Why did this happen? Was it an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Was it a by-product of the Protestant apocalyptic tradition? Was it a response to the changing status of the Jews in Europe? In Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce argues that Puritan Judaizing was in fact an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a 'singular, ' positively distinctive, and Godly minority.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1725261413
• ISBN13: 9781725261419
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"