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Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Holy ambition; rhetoric, courtship, and devotion in the sermons of John Donne.

Nelson, Brent.

MRTS

2005

306 pages

$38.00

Hardcover

Medieval and renaissance texts and studies; v.284

BV4253

The impression emerging from the modern of Donne's (1572-1631) sermons is of a preacher who delicately balanced personal conscience regarding his spiritual duty with the external demands of political authority. Though recognizing these cultural conditions, Nelson treats them not as limitations on his freedom as a preacher, but as part of ...

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