{"product_id":"jewish-christians-in-puritan-england-9780227177952","title":"Jewish Christians in Puritan England","description":"A new analysis of the phenomenon of Judaizing Christianity in seventeenth-century England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the proliferation of Protestant sects across England in the seventeenth century, a remarkable number began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. From circumcision to Sabbath-keeping and dietary laws, their actions led these movements were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers, with various motives proposed. Were these Judaizing steps an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Were they a by-product of Protestant apocalyptic tendencies? Were they a response to the changing status of Jews in Europe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce shows that it was instead another aspect of Puritanism that led to this behaviour: the need to be recognised as a ‘singular’, positively distinctive, Godly minority. This quest for demonstrable uniqueness as a form of assurance united the Judaizing groups with other Protestant movements, while the depiction of Judaism in Christian rhetoric at the time made them a peculiarly ideal model upon which to base the marks of their salvation.","brand":"Aidan Cottrell-Boyce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056356401403,"sku":"9780227177952","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_af3355a7-d827-4eb9-af6d-9c25e2ed36c9.jpg?v=1783498975","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/jewish-christians-in-puritan-england-9780227177952","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}