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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Main Author: Cooper, Tim 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 778-797
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible / Holy books / England / Separatist / Puritans / Church of England / History 1570-1650
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBF British Isles
KDE Anglican Church
KDG Free church
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919002331