The pastor in print

<i>The pastor in print</i> explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors addressing ways authorship could enhance limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print genre religio-politics and theology the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history literature and theological studies and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.