Meic pearse biography definition
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Meic Pearse is Professor of History at Houghton College, New York, where he leads the 'East Meets West' Honors Program.
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This work is an apt introduction to the continental and English radicals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pearse’s approach is to view the material from a dynamic rather than an organic perspective.
Instead of trying to discover historical connections between individuals or groups through their actions or confessional statements, Pearse simply indicates the similarity of thought. This is especially true in Pearse’s comments on the relationship between the continental Anabaptists and the later English radicals.
He says that he does not claim an ‘organic connectedness’ between these groups, but suggests that they had a similar purpose. Each individual or group that Pearse spotlights had the ultimate goal: ‘the restoration of primitive Christianity along (in the sociological sense) sectarian lines’.
The various groups that Pearse surveys include the Lollards, the Swiss Anabaptists, the North German-Dutch Anabaptists, the Mennonites, the S