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Autore |
Quantin Jean-Louis |
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Titolo |
The Church of England and Christian antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century / / Jean-Louis Quantin |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-05343-4 |
9786612053436 |
0-19-156534-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (524 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fathers of the church |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-487) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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