the reformation of heathen: Theology, history, and nature in Protestant Atlantic World, 15001700

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Bol A study of the Biblical ‘heathen’ idea in the religious culture of the Protestant Atlantic world, illuminating its role as a catalyst of reformation, colonisation and evangelism in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England. ‘Ambitious, agile, and erudite. In McGhee’s hands, “heathenism” becomes an illuminating lens onto the dynamic, complex, and troubling process by which Protestantism implanted itself in Britain and its colonies. This marvellous book opens a fascinating new window into the religious politics of global expansion and the Long Reformation.’– Professor Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge‘A sharp-eyed and rigorous book that teases out the many meanings of the “heathen” – more complex and, even, more positive than we might have guessed. He helps us see the strange, wide Atlantic world through early modern English eyes.’– Professor Alec Ryrie, University of DurhamThis timely monograph traces how the figure of the ‘heathen’ shaped Protestant thought and practice in the Atlantic world from the Elizabethan period to the late seventeenth century. Using the ‘heathen’ as a conceptual lens, it examines the relationship between theology, history and nature in Protestant religious culture. The book follows biblical language across intersecting genres, including sermons, historical writing, ballads, and colonial correspondence, to show how Protestants understood non-Christianity in England, Ireland, Virginia, and New England. It reveals the fluidity and fine-grained distinctions that characterised Protestant attitudes towards belief, difference, and conversion. It also demonstrates how ideas of the ‘heathen’ both informed and reflected belief and practice within the Church of England, as well as among congregationalist and separatist communities. Rather than sustaining a binary opposition between Christianity and a monolithic ‘Other’, the ‘heathen’ expressed concerns about corruption within believers and non-believers alike, while continuing to gesture towards the possibility of conversion and salvation. By foregrounding this instability, the book complicates narratives of Protestant continuity and stasis. It shows how English Protestants in the Atlantic world engaged with multiple and malleable identities – both past and present, real and imagined – within ambitious projects of reformation, colonisation, and evangelism. This monograph investigates the idea of the ‘heathen’ in the English Protestant religious culture of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It illuminates how religious attitudes towards multifarious manifestations of non-belief and heterodoxy, derived from the Bible, historical scholarship and theological texts, shaped an ambitious religious-imperial project of reformation, colonisation and evangelism based on the prospect of physical and spiritual expansion. Examining printed texts, manuscript writing and visual culture, this study traces the uses of the ‘heathen’ label in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England. It reveals the evolving, yet enduring power of the concept as an expression of non-belief, uncultivated wilderness and corruption that Protestants perceived not only beyond, but also within Christian communities, even as the label could also invite conversion to the true religion and point the way to salvation.

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A study of the Biblical ‘heathen’ idea in the religious culture of the Protestant Atlantic world, illuminating its role as a catalyst of reformation, colonisation and evangelism in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England. ‘Ambitious, agile, and erudite. In McGhee’s hands, “heathenism” becomes an illuminating lens onto the dynamic, complex, and troubling process by which Protestantism implanted itself in Britain and its colonies. This marvellous book opens a fascinating new window into the religious politics of global expansion and the Long Reformation.’– Professor Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge‘A sharp-eyed and rigorous book that teases out the many meanings of the “heathen” – more complex and, even, more positive than we might have guessed. He helps us see the strange, wide Atlantic world through early modern English eyes.’– Professor Alec Ryrie, University of DurhamThis timely monograph traces how the figure of the ‘heathen’ shaped Protestant thought and practice in the Atlantic world from the Elizabethan period to the late seventeenth century. Using the ‘heathen’ as a conceptual lens, it examines the relationship between theology, history and nature in Protestant religious culture. The book follows biblical language across intersecting genres, including sermons, historical writing, ballads, and colonial correspondence, to show how Protestants understood non-Christianity in England, Ireland, Virginia, and New England. It reveals the fluidity and fine-grained distinctions that characterised Protestant attitudes towards belief, difference, and conversion. It also demonstrates how ideas of the ‘heathen’ both informed and reflected belief and practice within the Church of England, as well as among congregationalist and separatist communities. Rather than sustaining a binary opposition between Christianity and a monolithic ‘Other’, the ‘heathen’ expressed concerns about corruption within believers and non-believers alike, while continuing to gesture towards the possibility of conversion and salvation. By foregrounding this instability, the book complicates narratives of Protestant continuity and stasis. It shows how English Protestants in the Atlantic world engaged with multiple and malleable identities – both past and present, real and imagined – within ambitious projects of reformation, colonisation, and evangelism. This monograph investigates the idea of the ‘heathen’ in the English Protestant religious culture of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It illuminates how religious attitudes towards multifarious manifestations of non-belief and heterodoxy, derived from the Bible, historical scholarship and theological texts, shaped an ambitious religious-imperial project of reformation, colonisation and evangelism based on the prospect of physical and spiritual expansion. Examining printed texts, manuscript writing and visual culture, this study traces the uses of the ‘heathen’ label in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England. It reveals the evolving, yet enduring power of the concept as an expression of non-belief, uncultivated wilderness and corruption that Protestants perceived not only beyond, but also within Christian communities, even as the label could also invite conversion to the true religion and point the way to salvation.

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