Abbreviations; Introduction; I. USSHER IN IRELAND; 1. Controversy and Religious Identity in Sixteenth-Century Ireland; 2. Intellectual Formation: Trinity College, Dublin; 3. Ussher and the Shaping of Irish Protestant Theology; 4. Ussher and the Irish Articles of 1615; 5. Theology and Politics: 1615-25; 6. Religion, History, and Protestant National Identity; 7. Defending Calvinism: 1626-33; 8. Internal Exile: Ussher and Laudianism: 1633-40; 9. Ussher and Irish History: Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates; II. USSHER IN ENGLAND; 10. Ussher and the Defence of Episcopacy
Summary
Tracing the interconnections between this scholarship and his wider ecclesiastical and political interests, Alan Ford throws new light on the character and attitudes of a seminal figure in the history of Irish Protestantism
