It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read A Protestant Purgatory by Laurie Throness
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This book examines the role of protestant theology on the penal system of eighteenth-century England. While modern historians of crime admit that religion played an important role in the conception and practice of justice, relatively little work has been done to assess just how these two pillars of early modern society interacted. This study examines the theological background to the Penitentiary Act of 1779--a deeply theological piece of legislation that conflated punishment and hard labour with the ability to redeem sinners. Whereas Catholic theology stressed the role of purgatory after...
A Protestant Purgatory by Laurie Throness is 379 pages long, and a total of 98,161 words.
This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read A Protestant Purgatory aloud.
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