Catholic and Reformed: the Roman and Protestant churches in English Protestant thought, 1600-1640
Religious controversy was central to political conflict in the years before the English Civil War. Where earlier historians have focused more narrowly on the doctrine of predestination, Dr Milton analyses the broader attitudes which underlay notions of religious orthodoxy. Through the first comprehe...
| Summary: | Religious controversy was central to political conflict in the years before the English Civil War. Where earlier historians have focused more narrowly on the doctrine of predestination, Dr Milton analyses the broader attitudes which underlay notions of religious orthodoxy. Through the first comprehensive analysis of how contemporaries viewed the Roman and foreign Reformed churches in the early Stuart period, Milton demonstrates the way in which an author's choice of a particular style of religious discourse could be used either to mediate or to provoke religious conflict. This study challenges many current historical orthodoxies. It identifies the theological novelty of Laudianism, but also exposes areas of ideological tension within the Jacobean Church. Its wide-ranging conclusions will be of vital concern to students of early Stuart religion and the origins of the English Civil War. English Protestantism at the dawn of the seventeenth century -- pt. I. The Church of Rome. 1. 'This immortal fewde': anti-popery, 'negative popery' and the changing climate of religious controversy. The attractions of anti-popery. The rationale of Jacobean anti-popery. The papal threat -- home and abroad. 'Dissenting voices': Hooker and his disciples. The political fortunes of Jacobean anti-popery. Anti-popery under Charles I. Laudianism and 'negative popery'. Crypto-popery and Laudian Cambridge. Laudians and the problem of recusancy. 2. The rejection of Antichrist. The apocalyptic tradition. Tensions and ambiguities. The rejection of the tradition. 3. Rome as a true church. The 'true church' in Protestant ecclesiology and the problem of Rome. Rome as a church 'secundum quid'. The Old Religion controversy. Defences of Rome: Hooker and his heirs. Catholicity. Salvation. 4. The errors of the Church of Rome. An 'anti-religion'? Fundamentals and additions. Roman idolatry. Roman heresy. 5. Unity and diversity in the Roman communion: inconsistency or opportunity? The meaning of Roman heterogeneity. The politics of Roman heterogeneity. The Oath of Allegiance: a heterogeneity of motives. The 'Church of Rome' and the 'Court of Rome' |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511560737 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511560736 |