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This is a remarkable study of rather ordinary people whose religious convictions led them to preach and to do extraordinary things. This work examines the relationships between religion, particularly constructed as the function of leadership framed by religious identities or motivations, and transformations, attempted or effected, of the political order. This work is intended for scholars, at the professional and graduate study level, of early modern religious history. In particular the focus is on England during the mid-seventeenth-century. The general topic is the relationship between revolutions and religion; and, in particular, the role of prophets and prophecies in such crises. It focuses on the institutionalization of the prophetic office, especially with regards to the Long Parliament (1640-1660). The study begins with a discussion of the first parliamentary fast day sermons delivered by Cornelius Burges and Stephan Marshall in November of 1640. The general thesis of the book, then, suggests that the English Civil Wars and Revolution can only be understood in terms of the relationship between religion and crisis, that religion within the context of cultural crisis may best be understood in terms of prophets and their prophecy, and that in the mid-seventeenth-century, England's prophets, who were ordinary preaching folk, developed an analogy between England's situation and that of Old Testament Israel.

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In this volume, Professor Dippel demonstrates that historians can see men and women not as others see them but as they saw themselves and that, in this way, we can still learn lessons that are of value in the fight. For that, those of us in other battalions who look to history for a measure of support may well be grateful. (Professor David Strain, English and Humanities University of the Ozarks)

"""In this volume, Professor Dippel demonstrates that historians can see men and women not as others see them but as they saw themselves and that, in this way, we can still learn lessons that are of value in the fight. For that, those of us in other battalions who look to history for a measure of support may well be grateful."" (Professor David Strain, English and Humanities University of the Ozarks)"

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Dr. Stewart A. Dippel is a Professor of Political Science the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. Dr. Dippel received his PhD. In History from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

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