The Church of England and Christian antiquity : the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century / Jean-Louis Quantin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quantin, Jean-Louis.

Series:

Oxford-Warburg studies.

Oxford-Warburg studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers of the church.

Church of England--Doctrines--History--17th century.

Church of England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (524 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean-Louis Quantin shows how the appeal to Christian antiquity played a key role in the construction of a new confessional identity, 'Anglicanism', maintaining that theologians of the Church of England came to consider that their Church occupied a unique position, because it alone was faithful to the beliefs and practices of the Church Fathers. - ;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

Contents:

The English Reformation and the Protestant view of antiquity

The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel

Sola scriptura

Patristic orthodoxy

Unwritten traditions and the consensus of the Fathers

Witnesses to the truth : the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history

Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy

Becoming traditional : the appeal to antiquity in Jacobean controversies

Primitive episcopacy

Puritanism

Christ's descent into hell

The cessation of miracles

From distinctiveness to singularity

Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers

Theological method

Augustinism and Calvinism

The authority of tradition

The Fathers assaulted

The survival of Elizabethan theology

Theological liberalism and the Fathers : the Great Tew circle

An anti-patristic breviary : Jean Daill'e's use of the Fathers

The first English fortune of Daill'e's use of the Fathers

A patristic identity

Puritan scripturalism

The extinction of the Great Tew spirit?

The restoration church between dissenters and papists

History versus enthusiasm

Winning the patristic argument

The case for tradition

Defending the Fathers

Hierarchical tradition : the solution of Herbert Thorndike

Historical tradition : the solution of Henry Dodwell.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-487) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-05343-4

9786612053436

0-19-156534-2

OCLC:

326883264