The Puritan Imagination
eBook - ePub

The Puritan Imagination

Bishop Joseph Hall's Use of Meditation

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Puritan Imagination

Bishop Joseph Hall's Use of Meditation

About this book

This book seeks to add a needed introduction to a way of meditation used among early modern English Protestants, influenced by Bishop Joseph Hall. Furthermore, the major role that Hall had in his Arte of Divine Mediation on late-seventeenth-century Protestant spirituality went beyond the practice of meditation and established a positive claim on the role of the imagination in shaping souls, well into the modern period. Within this context, the questions related to ancient understandings of faith and the interrelationship of divine revelation are discussed with fresh insights for our own times. If a revival of interest emerges again in Hall's work, it would be a compelling and fresh impetus to reclaim the broken imagination evident in many parts of the Western Church.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Recovering the Practice of Meditation
  6. Chapter 2: A Puritan Primer in Reformed Devotion
  7. Chapter 3: The Art of Meditation: Analysis
  8. Chapter 4: The Art of Divine Meditation Compared
  9. Chapter 5: Hall’s Use of Tradition on the Soul and Its Faculties
  10. Chapter 6: Occasional Meditation and the Puritan Imagination
  11. Appendix A: Hall’s Sources Overview
  12. Appendix B: Timeline of Bishop Hall
  13. Appendix C: Steps of Meditation Illustrated
  14. Bibliography