Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643–63: the case of Alexander Griffith*

IF 0.6 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-03-06 DOI:10.1093/HISRES/HTAA035
L. Bowen
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This article considers the nature and development of episcopalian identities and attitudes during the mid-seventeenth century by examining the case of Alexander Griffith. Griffith has been known to historians as an unbending ‘Anglican’, an exemplar of obdurate royalism and a man who was in the vanguard of resistance to the puritan experiments in Wales during the 1640s and 1650s. However, the discovery of Griffith’s sermon book in the Folger Shakespeare Library throws a different light on the nature of his career and the development of his opinions. Griffith’s sermons reveal that he made accommodations with local Presbyterians in the 1640s and even helped head-up their campaign to introduce the Directory for Public Worship into Wales and the Marches. The sermon book provides the opportunity for a new and more nuanced reading of the numerous tracts he published against the Commission for the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales during the 1650s. The article argues that both his sermons and published works reveal Griffith as an implacable opponent of radical separatists, but that he was willing to accommodate with and adapt to moderate parliamentarian regimes. His position shifted at the Restoration when he articulated his conviction in two high profile assize sermons that the Act of Uniformity provided the best defence against the spectre of radical religion and political dissolution. This article reveals that Griffith was a more important figure than has generally been acknowledged and that his religious and political positions were more complex than previous studies have allowed.
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威尔士游行中的布道和政治,1643-63:亚历山大·格里菲斯的案例*
本文通过考察亚历山大格里菲斯的案例,考虑了17世纪中叶圣公会身份和态度的性质和发展。格里菲斯被历史学家称为不屈不挠的圣公会教徒,是顽固的保皇派的典范,是1640年代和1650年代威尔士抵抗清教实验的先锋。然而,在福尔杰莎士比亚图书馆发现的格里菲斯的布道书,对他的职业生涯的性质和他的观点的发展提出了不同的看法。格里菲斯的布道书显示,他在17世纪40年代与当地的长老会教徒达成了和解,甚至帮助他们发起了一场运动,将《公众礼拜指南》引入威尔士和游行。这本布道书提供了一个新的机会,更细致地阅读他在1650年代出版的反对威尔士福音传播委员会的大量小册子。文章认为,格里菲斯的布道和出版的作品都表明,他是激进分裂主义者的坚定反对者,但他愿意适应温和的议会政权。他的立场在复辟时期发生了转变,他在两次高调的布道中明确表达了自己的信念,即《统一法案》是抵御激进宗教和政治解体幽灵的最佳防御。这篇文章揭示了格里菲斯是一个比人们普遍认为的更重要的人物,他的宗教和政治立场比以前的研究所允许的更复杂。
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