TY - CHAP
T1 - Nature's scourges: the natural world and special prayers, fasts and thanksgivings, 1541-1866
AU - Raffe, Alasdair
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper surveys the full history of special prayers, fasts and thanksgivings called by ecclesiastical authorities in response to disease, meteorological events, fire, earthquakes and successful or failed harvests during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It is based on the little studied proclamations and acts supporting special days, and the prayers issued to be read in English, Welsh and Irish Churches. These provide new evidence of the continuity into the modern period of ideas concerning God's providential government of the natural world.
AB - This paper surveys the full history of special prayers, fasts and thanksgivings called by ecclesiastical authorities in response to disease, meteorological events, fire, earthquakes and successful or failed harvests during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It is based on the little studied proclamations and acts supporting special days, and the prayers issued to be read in English, Welsh and Irish Churches. These provide new evidence of the continuity into the modern period of ideas concerning God's providential government of the natural world.
UR - http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/northumbria-ac/items/1530475
UR - http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/northumbria-ac/items/1530475
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-0954680961
VL - 46
T3 - Studies in Church History
SP - 237
EP - 247
BT - God's bounty?: the churches of the natural world
PB - Ecclesiastical History Society
CY - Saffron Walden
ER -