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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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Anno: 2020, Volume: 71, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 778-797 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Bible
/ Holy books
/ England
/ Separatist
/ Puritans
/ Church of England
/ History 1570-1650
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | HA Bibbia KAG Riforma protestante KBF Isole Britanniche KDE Chiesa anglicana KDG Chiese libere |
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| Riepilogo: | 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 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919002331 |