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Author Prior, Charles W. A

Title Defining the Jacobean Church : the politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625 / Charles W.A. Prior
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; 1 Introduction: defining the Church; 2 The language of ecclesiastical polity and Jacobean conformist thought; 3 Doctrine, law, and conflict over the Canons of 1604; 4 Apostoli, episcopi, divini? models of ecclesiastical governance; 5 Bellum ceremoniale: scripture, custom, and ceremonial practice; 6 Ceremonies, episcopacy, and the Scottish Kirk; 7 Conclusion: narratives of civil and ecclesiastical authority; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book proposes a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625. It argues that rival interpretations of scripture, pagan, and civil history and the sources central to the Christian tradition lay at the heart of disputes between contrasting ecclesiological visions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-285) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Church of Scotland gnd
Subject Religious disputations -- England -- History -- 17th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Religious disputations
Anglikanische Kirche
Kontroverse
Ekklesiologie
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056786
Subject England
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
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