{"product_id":"naked-before-god-preston-boyle-9798233135095","title":"Naked Before God: A History of the Adamite Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaked Before God: A History of the Adamite Tradition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two thousand years, Christianity has harboured a secret it could never quite suppress. Buried in the second chapter of Genesis, in eleven words describing the first human couple as naked and unashamed, lies a question that has haunted the Western imagination ever since: what was lost when shame entered the world, and can it be recovered?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked Before God\u003c\/em\u003e traces the extraordinary history of those who answered that question in the most literal way available to them. From the shadowy sect described by the fourth-century bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, through the medieval Brethren of the Free Spirit, to the Bohemian commune on the island in the Nezárka river where Jan Zizka's soldiers found naked men and women wandering through the forests in the spring of 1421, to the antinomian prophets of the English Revolution, to the Czech peasants of the Chrudim district still waiting for a messianic deliverer in 1849, the Adamite tradition was never simply about nudity. It was about the deepest promises that Christianity ever made, and the cost of taking those promises seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on two millennia of theological argument, heresiological polemic, inquisitorial record, and the fragmented testimony of the communities themselves, Preston Boyle traces a tradition of radical Christian restorationism that the institutional Church repeatedly suppressed and history repeatedly forgot, but that the tradition's own promises kept generating, century after century, in new forms and new bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Preston Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233135095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverback Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.05d","brand":"Preston Boyle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48853046788351,"sku":"9798233135095","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/naked-before-god-preston-boyle-9798233135095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}