Ingenious Piety: Anglican Casuistry of the Seventeenth Century
In The Country Parson or the Priest to the Temple George Herbert portrays his ideal parish priest not only as a man learned in the works of the Church Fathers and contemporary theology but as one who greatly esteems also of cases of conscience, wherein he is much versed, because herein is the gre...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1970]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1970, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 409-432 |
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| Summary: | In The Country Parson or the Priest to the Temple George Herbert portrays his ideal parish priest not only as a man learned in the works of the Church Fathers and contemporary theology but as one who greatly esteems also of cases of conscience, wherein he is much versed, because herein is the greatest ability of a parson to lead his people exactly in the wayes of Truth. The case of conscience which the pastor of Bemerton praised so highly was, in the seventeenth century, the characteristic form of casuistry, the branch of theology which attempts to provide the perplexed human conscience with a means of reconciling the obligations of religious faith with the demands of particular human situations. In the case of conscience, the casuist poses, or is posed with, a difficult moral problem and solves it, often with a startling display of erudition and logical ingenuity. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000025463 |