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Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful

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	:"If Caroline communities such as the court, Little Gidding, and Great Tew strove to reassemble or to redefine the church heroic, these efforts were in part responses to the obvious failures of the Caroline church in military Protestantism." (87)		:"If Caroline communities such as the court, Little Gidding, and Great Tew strove to reassemble or to redefine the church heroic, these efforts were in part responses to the obvious failures of the Caroline church in military Protestantism." (87)

	== Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful ==		== Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful ==

			:"For Laud the dreamer, Davies is horrible not just because she disrupts the Caroline church, but because she represents the infiltration -- perhaps just the habitation -- of a potentially wild and seductive fancy within the walls of the temple itself." (102)

			:"Whatever the middle ground between them, the supposed opposition between liturgical forms and inspired dreams intensifies just beore, during, and after the Civil War. Especially at the end of Charles's reign and just after, such radical men as Gerrard Winstanley and ABiezer Coppe promulgate their dreams in order to challenge the forms of the national church, be it prelatical or Presbyterian." (102)

			:"What emerges from the many defenses of ceremony is an intermittent and somewhat nervous apology for fancy and the dream." (107)

			:"In sum, defense of a ceremonial imagination challenges apologists for the English church to discipline a transgressive fancy as well as to explain the origin of all ceremony's benefits in terms of fancy, that mediator between the body and soul. This question of origins leads us not just to what for Laud must be an ironic kinship between dreams and ceremony but also to the brink of an equation between them. The equation also encompasses the spectacle of state religion -- of poetry, dance, music, and gesture -- otherwise known as the masque." (111)

	== Respecting persons ==		== Respecting persons ==

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Great Tew and the skeptical hero

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			:"dialogue was secondary to private study among the visitors at Tew. All in all, the theological and philosophical work carried out at Great Tew was oriented toward a reconstitution of religions heroic circumstance as more open-ended than ritualistic or formulaic; more epistemological than epic; and more metaphysical than militaristic." (59)

			:"In the late 1620s and early 1630s Jonson and Carew delineate the fault lines in heroic values that Lucius Cary comes to embody." (63)

			:"For Falkland, the community at Great Tew provided the opportunity to elevate the discourse of the Church of England and to lend assistance to its leading lights as they sought to liberate that church from its political and ideational bonds. What is more, Neoplatonism served as a transition for Falkland from the Elizabethan conventions of heroism to the internalized, Erasmian, and skeptical valor that he developed with Chillingworth -- this, despite the fact that Falkland never finally abandoned the old warrior's mindset of his father." (69)

			:"Falkland's contemporaries and his finest modern scholars agree that the one set of values which he replayed time ad again in the refashioning of his own public persona was that of the religious hero. Falkland took it as his life's office to inhabit the past but also to recast the future of the character of the valiant Protestant." (78)

			:"For a few years at Great Tew, Falkland attempted to live out a skeptical heroism of the mind and soul, free of arrogant claims, of war, politics, dogma, and prescription. His was a relatively open if intellectually elitist coterie, one suspicious of any precedent that, unlike convivial Socrates or Erasmus, was not itself a skeptical host. In a time of domestic peace yet of growing stress in religious and political culture, Falkland sought to convert honest misinterpretation into the very virtue of the Church of England -- in contrast with the malicious misprision traded between 'Puritans' and 'Arminians' and productive, according to Clarendon, of the Civil War. By contrast to Tew, Little Gidding was more closed than open, more familial than friendly, more desirous of prescription and heroic precedents and almost plaintively critical of the same. People flocked to tour -- and to be inspired by -- the always remote and enigmatic 'Arminian nunnery' run putatively by Virginia Company separatists; people came from Oxford to live, think, and breathe at Great Tew, but the heroic service of Tew could not be taken down in prayer book formula. If Gidding was the distant yet luminous Castor of religious heroism of which people traveled for a glimpse, Tew was the imminent Pollux to which people looked for synthesis and leadership." (85)

			:"If Caroline communities such as the court, Little Gidding, and Great Tew strove to reassemble or to redefine the church heroic, these efforts were in part responses to the obvious failures of the Caroline church in military Protestantism." (87)

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Wtrettien: /* The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding */

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The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding

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	:"Although they admire patient saints and martyrs, the Gidding narrators read the persistence of Christian warfare as a sign of the fallible and exploratory nature of the church heroic." (51)		:"Although they admire patient saints and martyrs, the Gidding narrators read the persistence of Christian warfare as a sign of the fallible and exploratory nature of the church heroic." (51)

			"The Winding Sheet" -- "repudiation of a marriage between militarism and piety ... leads to the rejection of romance in the name of a more skeptical heroism's mortification, charity, and peace. But the interlocutors also confess their fascination with romance and cannot altogether jettison holy violence. INstead they prefer to characterize religious heroism not as a clean divorce from the vicissitudes of life on earth, but as a laborious, resourceful, and vulnerable struggle in the fallen world over the terms and costs of an exchange between violance and spirituality. This struggle parallels the hardships of reinventing a church that must resourcefully navigate between rival creeds and disciplines or somehow locate another estate for the greatness of the church beyond the impasse of those rivalries." (53)

			:"the interlocutors expose the Caroline synthetic mythology to ridicule by pointing to its popular reception as the kid of mock-romance permitted at court only in the antimasques of the 1630s." (53)

			:"In the story books, the pomp and circumstance of war are converted not into a masque's beautiful myth but rather into casuistry and critique. As a form, dialogue is well suited for scruitinizing and refashioning the grounds and means for religious heroism, and for moving that heroism toward an irenic and a skeptical alternative to Protestant aggression and courtly pomp. The form also shifts the preoccupation of epic religion away from grand designs against the Antichrist or even relatively peaceful claims for the superiority of the national church. Instead, heroism is quieter, more local, and less sure of itself: it involves a small community staging, strengthening, and enriching its covenant with a God who expects an all-consuming -- yet by no means perfect -- devotion." (54)

			:"the Ferrar family construes the enrichment of English spirituality as a bold journey for which they stand alone at the Pillars of Hercules, with no one else yet at sea." (55)

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== The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding ==

== Great Tew and the skeptical hero ==

== Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful ==

== Respecting persons ==

== Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person ==

== Nature (I): post-Baconian mysteries ==

== Nature (II): church and cosmos ==