Auctoritas patrum?
Subtitle: the reception of the church fathers in Puritanism
By: Ann-Stephane Schäfer
Series: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik -- 58; Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik -- 58.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9783631607442
Subjects: Puritans; Fathers of the church
Notes: Originally published as author's thesis (Dr. phil.)--Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-442) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. A case against claiming the fathers?; title: William Perkins's Probleme of the forged Catholicisme, or universitalitie of the Romish religion (1604; 1631); title: 3. The appeal to the fathers and patristic learning; title: 4. Exegesis in theory and practice; title: 5. Ecclesiology; title: 6. Conclusion.