30 décembre 2015
mburden, « InvenCaP Blog - Lucy Hutchinson and Baptist Confessions of Faith », Dissenting Experience, ID : 10670/1.6l5cam
By Mark Burden The Puritan poet and intellectual Lucy Hutchinson’s 62-page manuscript work ‘My Owne Faith and Attainment’ (1667) has received scant critical attention; on the few occasions that it has been discussed, the text has been viewed not (as its title would suggest) as a confession of faith relating to potential church membership, but as an intellectual exercise or treatise without any obvious precedent or function. This approach to the text is doubly puzzling given that it is followe...