Winstanley and Baptist Thought

Hessayon, Ariel

doi:10.1080/01440357.2014.914749

Prose Studies

2014

DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2014.914749

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Winstanley and Baptist Thought

Ariel Hessayon¹

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“…18 In this vein, Ariel Hessayon observes that Winstanley generally kept Sunday Sabbath as a "voluntary act of love" but did not hesitate to break it in 1649 to begin digging on George Hill as a "confrontational gesture" to honor the promptings of the "indwelling Christ" over the "outward" ceremony of Anglican or even Baptist church services. 19 This distinction between inner and outer elements characterizes Winstanley's theology. He encourages all to bring the two into alignment.…”

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Winstanley's “Righteous Actors”: Performance, Affect, and Extraordinary Politics in the Seventeenth Century

Murakami

2021

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On the first day of April 1649, on the predominantly rural manor of Walton, Surrey, the sight of people preparing land for the plow was unremarkable. To see men up at dawn, dressed for the field in broad-brimmed hats, homespun waistcoats, and short breeches, loosening or breaking up clods with their spades, stooping to toss aside root and rock, was typical. What did raise eyebrows, however, was the sight of such busyness on a Sunday, the Sabbath, and on no less remarkable ground than George Hill, with its “very barren,” sandy soil. When questioned, Gerrard Winstanley reframed this performative break with religious, social, and agricultural norms as he did in his soon to be published manifesto, The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced. To work this land was to “declare . . . by action,” as well as by word, that Winstanley, the self-described “prophet” William Everard, and a small number of others had been sent by the Creator to begin their mission of transforming “the Earth [into] a common Treasury for all, both Rich and Poor.” Rural, religious, and resource poor, the Digger collective has not received substantial attention from performance studies scholars. Even some historians of the seventeenth century have questioned the significance of this small, nonviolent agrarian group in the intensely “charged political atmosphere of the 1640s,” but as a collective whose theatrical social performances raised them from obscurity to national visibility, Diggers are in some ways the epitome of this era.

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English radical religion and the invention of the General Baptists,1609–1660

Bingham

2018

The Seventeenth Century

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Winstanley and Baptist Thought

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Winstanley's “Righteous Actors”: Performance, Affect, and Extraordinary Politics in the Seventeenth Century

Winstanley's “Righteous Actors”: Performance, Affect, and Extraordinary Politics in the Seventeenth Century

English radical religion and the invention of the General Baptists,1609–1660

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