The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: All Sorts and Conditions.
Author: GILLESPIE, Raymond & NEELY, W. G. (Editors).
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. xvi, 368 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
Religion has always been central to an understanding of the Irish past and the experience of the Church of Ireland, as the established church before 1870, has exercised a perennial fascination for historians. Yet what has been written about the Church of Ireland has always been couched in institutional terms. This book breaks new ground by asking not how the institution worked but what it was like to be a member of that church in the past.
Twelve contributors, each experts in their own field, survey the diverse aspects of the religion of the Church of Ireland laity, including its medieval background. Together they chart how those beliefs were worked out in parish life, in the world of politics and in the sphere of private devotion.
Contents:-
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Raymond Gillespie
1. The layperson in the parish: the medieval inheritance, 1169-1536
Adrian Empey
I. ROCK OF AGES: THE LAITY IN AN AGE OF SECURITY
2. The shaping of a lay community in the Church of Ireland, 1558-1640
Colm Lennon
3. Parishes, pews and parsons: lay people and the Church of Ireland, 1647-1780
T.C. Barnard
4. The development and limitations of Protestant ascendancy: the Church of Ireland laity in public life, c. 1660-1740
David Hayton
5. Lay spirituality and worship, 1558—1750: holy books and godly readers
Raymond Gillespie
II. CHANGE AND DECAY?: THE LAITY IN AN AGE OF FLUX
6. Protestant ascendancy challenged: the Church of Ireland laity and the public sphere, 1740—1869
Jacqueline Hill
7. An innovative people: the Church of Ireland laity, 1780—1830
Patrick Comerford
8. The laity in a changing society, 1830—1900
W.G. Neely
9. Disestablishment and the lay response
Kenneth Milne
10. Lay spirituality and worship, 1750-1950: a reading people
John Paterson
11. ‘Our people’: the Church of Ireland and the culture of community in Dublin since Disestablishment
Martin Maguire
12. Buildings and faith: church building from medieval to modern
Paul Larmour and Stephen McBride
Index
ISBN: 1851827161
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