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Chapter 10 - The Beauty of Holiness and Ceremonial Conformity

from Holy Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

Peter Lake
Peter Lake
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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This chapter traces the consequences of the Laudian ideal of the beauty of holiness for questions of bodily worship and ceremonial conformity. For the Laudians, the reverence and fear necessarily evoked by the divine presence in the church had to take an outward physical form. God had to be worshipped by the body as well as the soul, and indeed uniform, orderly bodily worship both practised by oneself and witnessed being practised by others was deemed to have specific edifying spiritual effects. The result was an elevated view of the significance of forms of worship, and certain key ceremonies previously regarded as merely ‘indifferent’ were conceded to have religious significance and spiritual potency.

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On Laudianism
Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I
 , pp. 139 - 150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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