Elizabethan Separatists, Puritan Conformists and the Bible
Sixteenth-century English separatists and Puritan conformists held a great deal in common but one simple distinction set them apart. Separatists recognised no other authority but Scripture: not logic, philosophy or reason; not tradition; not any human writing. Puritan conformists allowed a place for...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Année: 2020, Volume: 71, Numéro: 4, Pages: 778-797 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bible
/ Holy books
/ England
/ Separatist
/ Puritans
/ Church of England
/ History 1570-1650
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| Classifications IxTheo: | HA Bible KAG Réforme; humanisme; Renaissance KBF Îles britanniques KDE Église anglicane KDG Église libre |
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| Résumé: | Sixteenth-century English separatists and Puritan conformists held a great deal in common but one simple distinction set them apart. Separatists recognised no other authority but Scripture: not logic, philosophy or reason; not tradition; not any human writing. Puritan conformists allowed a place for those authorities, though subordinate to Scripture. That distinction shaped printed debate over church government and worship. Separatists worked within an "all-or-nothing mentality"; in response, conformists were forced to adopt a "bare-minimum mentality", which was quite different from how they argued in the opposite direction against the bishops of the Church of England. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919002331 |