Author: Thomas PlumePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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An Account of the Life and Death of the Right Reverend Father in God, John Hacket, Late Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry
Author: Thomas PlumePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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An account of the life and death of ... John Hacket, ed., with additions, by M.E.C. Walcott
Author: Thomas PlumePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Church of England and Christian Antiquity
Author: Jean-Louis QuantinPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
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 In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth.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.
Marginalia: Camden to Hutton
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691098890
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
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Susanna Wesley
Author: Susanna WesleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199879451
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Author: Judith MaltbyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Studies conformity to the Church of England after the Reformation.
Twelve Short and Simple Meditations on the Sufferings of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Author: William John Butler (Dean of Lincoln.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, According to the Four Evangelists
Author: Carlo M. de Vera d'AragonaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Conversations on the history of England, for the use of children. By C. A. B. Edited by John Baines
Author: C. A. B.Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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