In God's Name : Examples of Preaching in England from the ACT of Supremacy to the ACT of Uniformity, 1534-1662

Hardback. Wear and tear to D/J. 'Things are preached not in they are taught, but in that they are published'. There could be no better epigraph that this observation of Richard Hoker for the wide-ranging anthology within which John Chandos has brought together the finest flowering of the preacher's art - the art practised over rather more than a hundred years, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, between the Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity. Hooker, says Mr. Chandos, 'put a diving finger on the nature of the process which was to grow into the first strategic exercise in popular communications in the history of England',586 pp.