The Church of England and Christian antiquity
Subtitle: the construction of a confessional identity in the seventeenth century
By: Jean-Louis Quantin.
Series: Oxford-Warburg studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780199557868
Subjects: Church of England -- Doctrines -- History -- 17th century; Fathers of the church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The English Reformation and the Protestant view of antiquity; title: The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel; title: Sola scriptura; title: Patristic orthodoxy; title: Unwritten traditions and the consensus of the Fathers; title: Witnesses to the truth : the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history; title: Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy; title: Becoming traditional : the appeal to antiquity in Jacobean controversies; title: Primitive episcopacy; title: Puritanism; title: Christ's descent into hell; title: The cessation of miracles; title: From distinctiveness to singularity; title: Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers; title: Theological method; title: Augustinism and Calvinism; title: The authority of tradition; title: The Fathers assaulted; title: The survival of Elizabethan theology; title: Theological liberalism and the Fathers : the Great Tew circle; title: An anti-patristic breviary : Jean Daill'e's use of the Fathers; title: The first English fortune of Daill'e's use of the Fathers; title: A patristic identity; title: Puritan scripturalism; title: The extinction of the Great Tew spirit?; title: The restoration church between dissenters and papists; title: History versus enthusiasm; title: Winning the patristic argument; title: The case for tradition; title: Defending the Fathers; title: Hierarchical tradition : the solution of Herbert Thorndike; title: Historical tradition : the solution of Henry Dodwell.