To "Run with the Time" Archbishop Whitgift, the Lambeth Articles, and the Politics of Theological Ambiguity in Late Elizabethan England
This article links the Lambeth Articles of 1596 - an abortive attempt to supply an official Calvinist gloss to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England - with apprehensions about the future of the English Church after the death of Elizabeth I and the succession (in all likelihood) of James...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1992
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-340 |
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| Summary: | This article links the Lambeth Articles of 1596 - an abortive attempt to supply an official Calvinist gloss to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England - with apprehensions about the future of the English Church after the death of Elizabeth I and the succession (in all likelihood) of James VI of Scotland, a king the nature of whose own confessional commitment was then still ambivalent. That James might prove to be a strict Calvinist and a patron of English Calvinist advocates of further reformation was a real possibility in 1596, one which inspired both hopes and fears among English ecclesiastics. Archbishop Whitgift, we argue, endorsed the Articles as a form of theological insurance against the succession of a Calvinist James I and not with any intention of securing their acceptance by Elizabeth I or her church. In the event, James I proved to be no patron of reform-minded English Calvinists and so the Articles never secured confessional status in the Church of England. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541893 |