Church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, c. 1635-66 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vernon, Elliot; Powell, Hunter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time. It explores debates concerning the relationship between church, state and people, the nature of the various post-Reformation settlements in the British Atlantic and how they impacted on each other, as well as central and local responses to ecclesiastical upheaval. This is one of the first scholarly collections to focus on the topic of church polity and its relation to politics during a critical period of transatlantic history. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the British revolutions as well as those working on the history of the Church and early dissenting tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105912
• Artikelnr.: 58487867

Autorenporträt

Elliot Vernon is a barrister and has published a number of articles on topics relating to mid-seventeenth-century history Hunter Powell is Research Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas, Austin and has also worked as lecturer in history at the University of Texas

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, c. 1635
66
Elliot Vernon 2 'From the Apostles' time': the polity of the British episcopal churches, 1603
62
Benjamin M. Guyer 3 Peers, pastors, and the particular church: the failure of congregational ideas in the Mersey Basin region, 1636
41
James Mawdesley 4 'One of the least things in religion': the Welsh experience of church polity, 1640
60
Stephen K. Roberts 5 Polity, discipline and theology: the importance of the covenant in Scottish presbyterianism, 1560
c. 1700
R. Scott Spurlock 6 Presbyterian ecclesiologies at the Westminster assembly
Chad Van Dixhoorn 7 'They agree not in opinion among themselves': two
kingdoms theory, 'Erastianism' and the Westminster assembly debate on church and state, c. 1641
48
Elliot Vernon 8 The New England way reconsidered: an exploration of church polity and the governance of the region's churches
Francis J. Bremer 9 The association movement and the politics of church settlement during the interregnum
Joel Halcomb 10 Polity and peacemaking: to what extent was Richard Baxter a congregationalist?
Tim Cooper 11 'Promote, protect, prosecute': the congregationalist divines and the establishment of church and magistrate in Cromwellian England
Hunter Powell 12 The Restoration episcopacy and the interregnum: autobiography, suffering and professions of faith
Sarah Ward Clavier Index