The Church of England and Christian Antiquity: The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th Century
Jean-Louis Quantin shows how the appeal to Christian antiquity played a key role in the construction of a new confessional identity, 'Anglicanism', maintaining that theologians of the Church of England came to consider that their Church occupied a unique position, because it alone was fait...
| Summary: | Jean-Louis Quantin shows how the appeal to Christian antiquity played a key role in the construction of a new confessional identity, 'Anglicanism', maintaining that theologians of the Church of England came to consider that their Church occupied a unique position, because it alone was faithful to the beliefs and practices of the Church Fathers. Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The English Reformation and the Protestant View of Antiquity -- 1. The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel -- 2. Sola Scriptura -- 3. Patristic orthodoxy -- 4. 'Unwritten traditions' and the 'consensus of the Fathers' -- 5. Witnesses to the truth: the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history -- 6. Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy -- 2. Becoming Traditional? The Appeal to Antiquity in Jacobean Controversies -- 1. Primitive episcopacy -- 2. Puritanism? -- 3. Christ's descent into Hell -- 4. The cessation of miracles -- 5. From distinctiveness to singularity -- 3. Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers -- 1. Theological method -- 2. Augustinism and Calvinism -- 3. The authority of tradition -- 4. The Fathers Assaulted -- 1. The survival of Elizabethan theology -- 2. Theological liberalism and the Fathers: the Great Tew circle -- 3. An anti-patristic breviary: Jean Daillé's Use of the Fathers -- 4. The first English fortune of Daillé's Use of the Fathers -- 5. A Patristic Identity -- 1. Puritan scripturalism -- 2. The extinction of the Great Tew spirit? -- 3. The Restoration Church between Dissenters and papists -- 4. History versus enthusiasm -- 5. Winning the patristic argument -- 6. The Case for Tradition -- 1. Defending the Fathers -- 2. Hierarchical tradition: the solution of Herbert Thorndike -- 3. Historical tradition: the solution of Henry Dodwell -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (524 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191565342 |