The web of friendship : Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding

The web of friendship : Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding /

A biography of Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637) and his family with a focus on his background, his education and experiences that shaped that ministry as well as the circumstances that brought the family to the village of Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire. Avoiding the hagiographic tone adopted by Ferrar&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ransome, Joyce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. : James Clarke & Co., 2011.
Subjects:
Ferrar, Nicholas, > 1592-1637.
Ferrar, Nicholas, > 1592-1637
Church of England > Clergy > Biography.
Little Gidding (Christian community)
Church of England
Clergy > England > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
RELIGION > Christianity > Anglican.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Clergy
England
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Formative years : 'the time of his ingathering'
  • The new household at Little Gidding : 'united not only in cohabitation but in hartes'
  • Enlarging the community : the 'web of friendship'
  • Voluntarism and the wider mission : 'a light upon a hill could not be hid'
  • Temperance and tensions : "frayltie & fears'
  • Harmonies royal : 'rarities in their kind'
  • Nicholas posthumous.

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