Author: Thomas Plume
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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An account of the life and death of ... John Hacket, ed., with additions, by M.E.C. Walcott
Author: Thomas Plume
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Johann Jakob Herzog
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The Church of England and Christian Antiquity
Author: Jean-Louis Quantin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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Today, the statement that Anglicans are fond of the Fathers and keen on patristic studies looks like a platitude. Like many platitudes, it is much less obvious than one might think. Indeed, it has a long and complex history. Jean-Louis Quantin shows how, between the Reformation and the last years of the Restoration, the rationale behind the Church of England's reliance on the Fathers as authorities on doctrinal controversies, changed significantly. Elizabethan divines, exactly like their Reformed counterparts on the Continent, used the Church Fathers to vindicate the Reformation from Roman Catholic charges of novelty, but firmly rejected the authority of tradition. They stressed that, on all questions controverted, there was simply no consensus of the Fathers. Beginning with the 'avant-garde conformists' of early Stuart England, the reference to antiquity became more and more prominent in the construction of a new confessional identity, in contradistinction both to Rome and to Continental Protestants, which, by 1680, may fairly be called 'Anglican'. English divines now gave to patristics the very highest of missions. In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth. As the identity of the Church of England was thus redefined, its past was reinvented. This appeal to the Fathers boosted the self-confidence of the English clergy and helped them to surmount the crises of the 1650s and 1680s. But it also undermined the orthodoxy that it was supposed to support.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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Today, the statement that Anglicans are fond of the Fathers and keen on patristic studies looks like a platitude. Like many platitudes, it is much less obvious than one might think. Indeed, it has a long and complex history. Jean-Louis Quantin shows how, between the Reformation and the last years of the Restoration, the rationale behind the Church of England's reliance on the Fathers as authorities on doctrinal controversies, changed significantly. Elizabethan divines, exactly like their Reformed counterparts on the Continent, used the Church Fathers to vindicate the Reformation from Roman Catholic charges of novelty, but firmly rejected the authority of tradition. They stressed that, on all questions controverted, there was simply no consensus of the Fathers. Beginning with the 'avant-garde conformists' of early Stuart England, the reference to antiquity became more and more prominent in the construction of a new confessional identity, in contradistinction both to Rome and to Continental Protestants, which, by 1680, may fairly be called 'Anglican'. English divines now gave to patristics the very highest of missions. In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth. As the identity of the Church of England was thus redefined, its past was reinvented. This appeal to the Fathers boosted the self-confidence of the English clergy and helped them to surmount the crises of the 1650s and 1680s. But it also undermined the orthodoxy that it was supposed to support.
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Lefferts Augustine Loetscher
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Law of Contracts
Author: Theophilus Parsons
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Category : Contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : Contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Pioneers of France in the New World
Author: Francis Parkman
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel, including the biography of its Earls, from the conquest to the present time
Author: Mark Aloysius Tierney
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Category : Arundel (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Arundel (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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On Providence and Other Essays
Author: Ulrich Zwingli
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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