The Life of William Chillingworth
Author : Pierre Desmaizeaux
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1863
Category : England
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Author : Pierre Desmaizeaux
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1863
Category : England
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Author : William Chillingworth
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Page : 774 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : William Chillingworth
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Jean-Louis Quantin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0191565342
Today, the statement that Anglicans are fond of the Fathers and keen on patristic studies looks like a platitude. Like many platitudes, it is much less obvious than one might think. Indeed, it has a long and complex history. Jean-Louis Quantin shows how, between the Reformation and the last years of the Restoration, the rationale behind the Church of England's reliance on the Fathers as authorities on doctrinal controversies, changed significantly. Elizabethan divines, exactly like their Reformed counterparts on the Continent, used the Church Fathers to vindicate the Reformation from Roman Catholic charges of novelty, but firmly rejected the authority of tradition. They stressed that, on all questions controverted, there was simply no consensus of the Fathers. Beginning with the 'avant-garde conformists' of early Stuart England, the reference to antiquity became more and more prominent in the construction of a new confessional identity, in contradistinction both to Rome and to Continental Protestants, which, by 1680, may fairly be called 'Anglican'. English divines now gave to patristics the very highest of missions. In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth. As the identity of the Church of England was thus redefined, its past was reinvented. This appeal to the Fathers boosted the self-confidence of the English clergy and helped them to surmount the crises of the 1650s and 1680s. But it also undermined the orthodoxy that it was supposed to support.
Author : Des Maizeaux
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1725
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Author : Jacob David Hyman
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Toleration
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 1769
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William Chillingworth
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Protestantism
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Author : William Chillingworth
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Protestantism
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Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521537216