03660nam 2200565 a 450 991082513850332120230721005507.01-282-05343-497866120534360-19-156534-2(CKB)1000000000724673(EBL)431204(OCoLC)326883264(SSID)ssj0000122157(PQKBManifestationID)11139455(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122157(PQKBWorkID)10123492(PQKB)10489067(Au-PeEL)EBL431204(CaPaEBR)ebr10288326(CaONFJC)MIL205343(MiAaPQ)EBC431204(EXLCZ)99100000000072467320080922d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Church of England and Christian antiquity[electronic resource] the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century /Jean-Louis QuantinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (524 p.)Oxford-Warburg studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-955786-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-487) and index.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.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 Oxford-Warburg studies.Fathers of the churchFathers of the church.283/.42Quantin Jean-Louis1144563MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825138503321The Church of England and Christian antiquity4089511UNINA