The Church, Hypocrisy and Dissimulation: Volume 60

Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction Catherine Cubitt; 1. The Devil as 'Father of Lies': Ideas of Diabolical Deceit in the Donatist Controversy Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe; 2. 'In Defiance of his Cloth': Monastic (Im)piety in Late Antique Egypt (President's Prize) Paula Tutty; 3. Ostriches, Spiders' Webs and Antichrist: Hypocrisy in Writings of Pope Gregory the Great and Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (Presidential Address) Catherine Cubitt; 4. Cannibal, Scorpion, Horse, Owl: Institutional Hypocrites and the Early Fourteenth-Century Church John Sabapathy; 5. False Religion and Hypocrisy in Signorelli's Antichrist Konstantinos Gravanis; 6. 'God really hated the hypocrites': Hypocrisy and Anti-clerical Rhetoric in the Early Lutheran Reformation Charlotte Methuen; 7. Hypocrisy and Humour in the English Reformation Ethan H. Shagan; 8. Prudentes sicut serpentes: Dissimulation and Concealment in Japanese and Chinese Missions in the Seventeenth Century Iveta Nakládalová; 9. Hypocrisy, 'Prudence', 'Conscience' in Administration: The Congregation of Bishops and Regulars in Seventeenth-Century Italy Simone Maghenzani; 10. 'See sincerity sparkle in thy practice': Antidotes to Hypocrisy in British Print Sermons, 1640–95 Anna Pravdica; 11. Providence and Puritan Deceit: John Davenport's Forgery Revisited Christy Wang; 12. 'A Herd of snivelling, grinning Hypocrites': Religious Hypocrisy in Restoration Drama David Fletcher; 13. Laughing at Hypocrisy: The Turncoats (1711), Visual Culture and Dissent in Early Eighteenth-Century England Adam Morton; 14. The Problems of Performing Piety in some Exeter Dissenting Sermons c.1660–1745 David Parry; 15. The Rev. John Stainsby and the 'diffusion of Gospel truth' in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (Kennedy Prize) Alice Kinghorn; 16. Dissimulation as an Editorial Strategy in the Life of William Wilberforce Mark Smith; 17. Bishops, Brothels and Byron: Hypocrisy and the 1844 Brothel Suppression Bill Emily Baylor; 18. Cavalier South vs Puritan North? Hypocrisy and Identity in the American Civil War Edward G. Manger; 19. Enjoying what comes naturally: The Church of England and Sexuality in the 1930s Mark D. Chapman; 20. Humanity Defined, Hypocrisy Defied: Sacralizing the Black Freedom Struggle, 1930–60 Dennis C. Dickerson; 21. Vocation, Hypocrisy and Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England Peter Webster; 22. OutRage! Hypocrisy, Episcopacy and Homosexuality in 1990s England William Whyte.