Anthony Milton

Catholic and Reformed

The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600 1640

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Produktbeschreibung

Catholic and Reformed transcends the current boundaries of the historical debate concerning the role of religious conflict in the politics of the early Stuart period. While earlier studies have focused more narrowly on the doctrine of predestination, Dr Milton analyses the broader attitudes which underlay notions of religious orthodoxy in this period. He achieves this through the first comprehensive analysis of how contemporaries viewed the Roman and foreign Reformed Churches in the early Stuart period. Milton's account demonstrates the way in which an author's choice of a particular style of religious discourse could be used either to mediate or to provoke religious conflict. This study challenges many current historical orthodoxies. It identifies the theological novelty of Laudianism, but also exposes significant areas of ideological tension within the Jacobean Church. Its wide-ranging conclusions will be of vital concern to all students of early Stuart religion and the origins of the English civil war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1146g
• ISBN-13: 9780521401418
• ISBN-10: 0521401410
• Artikelnr.: 22128676

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: English Protestantism at the dawn of the seventeenth century
Part I. The Church of Rome: 1. 'This Immortal Fewde': anti-popery, 'negative popery' and the changing climate of religious controversy
2. The rejection of Antichrist
3. Rome as a true church
4. The errors of the Church of Rome
5. Unity and diversity in the Roman communion: inconsistency or opportunity?
6. Visibility, succession and the Church before Luther
7. Separation and reunion
Part II. The Reformed Churches: 8. Doctrinal links: a harmony of confessions?
9. 'The best reformed church': church government and politics
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.