Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England
Title | Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England PDF eBook |
Author | Greg A. Salazar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0197536905 |
Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645). It explores Featley's career and thought through a comprehensive treatment of his two dozen published works and manuscripts and situates these works within their original historical context. A fascinating figure, Featley was the youngest of the translators behind the Authorized Version, a protégé of John Rainolds, a domestic chaplain for Archbishop George Abbot, and a minister of two churches. As a result of his sympathies with royalism and episcopacy, he endured two separate attacks on his life. Despite this, Featley was the only royalist Episcopalian figure who accepted his invitation to the Westminster Assembly. Three months into the Assembly, however, Featley was charged with being a royalist spy, was imprisoned by Parliament, and died shortly thereafter. While Featley is a central focus of the work, this study is more than a biography. It uses Featley's career to trace the fortunes of Calvinist conformists--those English Calvinists who were committed to the established Church and represented the Church's majority position between 1560 and the mid-1620s, before being marginalized by Laudians in the 1630s and puritans in the 1640s. It demonstrates how Featley's convictions were representative of the ideals and career of conformist Calvinism, explores the broader priorities and political maneuvers of English Calvinist conformists, and offers a more nuanced perspective on the priorities and political maneuvers of these figures and the politics of religion in post-Reformation England.
Calvinist Conformity in Post-reformation England
Title | Calvinist Conformity in Post-reformation England PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Salazar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Calvinism |
ISBN | 9780197536919 |
"This work is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645). It explores Featley's career and thought through a comprehensive treatment of his two dozen published works and manuscripts and situates these works within their original historical context. A fascinating figure, Featley was the youngest translator of the Authorized Version, a protégé of John Rainolds, a domestic chaplain for Archbishop George Abbot, and a minister of two churches. As a result of his sympathies with royalism and episcopacy, he endured two different attacks on his life. Despite these two attacks, Featley was the only royalist episcopalian figure who accepted his invitation to the Westminster Assembly. Nevertheless, three months into the Assembly, Featley was charged with being a royalist spy, imprisoned by Parliament, and died shortly thereafter. While Featley is a central focus of the work, this work is more than a biography. It uses Featley's career to trace the fortunes of Calvinist conformists-those English Calvinists who were committed to the established Church and represented the Church's majority position between 1560 and the mid-1620s, before being marginalized by Laudians in the 1630s and puritans in the 1640s. It demonstrates how Featley's convictions were representative of the ideals and career of conformist Calvinism, explores the broader priorities and political manoeuvres of English Calvinist conformists, and offers a more nuanced perspective of the priorities and political manoeuvres of these figures and the politics of religion in post-Reformation England"--
Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
Title | Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Salazar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Church of England |
ISBN |
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714
Title | Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 PDF eBook |
Author | Dewey D. Wallace |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2011-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199744831 |
Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration, illuminating the religious and intellectual history of the era between the Reformation and modernity.
Ramism and the Reformation of Method
Title | Ramism and the Reformation of Method PDF eBook |
Author | Simon J. G. Burton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0197516351 |
Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed Christianity and its development as a divine logic attuned to understanding both Scripture and the world. In doing so, it reveals how Ramists rejected the notion of a philosophy or worldview independent of God and sought to encompass everything under an overarching Christian philosophy indebted to Franciscan ideals. The supreme goal of the Ramists was the remaking of the world in the image of the Triune God.
Bisschop's Bench
Title | Bisschop's Bench PDF eBook |
Author | SAMUEL. FORNECKER |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Arminianism |
ISBN | 0197637132 |
The relationship between English conformity and the Arminian tradition has long defied neat explanation. In Bisschop's Bench, Samuel D. Fornecker charts the incompatible theological agendas into which post-Restoration Arminian conformity proliferated and challenges the thesis that a monolithic Arminianism marched steadily from the post-Restoration period into the early Hanoverian. Fornecker examines the theological life of the English Church by paying particular attention to the Arminian conformists who accentuated Reformed divinity in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Dutch Arminian tradition and those who exercised authority from the Bishops' bench. By demonstrating the scope of intra-Arminian divergence and the negatively defined consensus that united traditionalist clergy otherwise at odds over grace and predestination, Bisschop's Bench provides an illuminating perspective on the Arminian tradition in the political, confessional, and educative contexts of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England.
The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church
Title | The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Lane |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317320557 |
Notions of religious conformity in England were redefined during the mid-seventeenth century; for many it was as though the previous century's reformation was being reversed. Lane considers how a select group of churchmen – the Laudians – reshaped the meaning of church conformity during a period of religious and political turmoil.