Author: Conyers MiddletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A Vindication of The Free Inquiry Into the Miraculous Powers, which are Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church
Author: Conyers MiddletonA Free Inquiry Into the Miraculous Powers
Author: Conyers MiddletonPublisher:
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Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth ...: M-S
Author: Dukes of Devonshire Library (Chatsworth)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James DarlingBritish Librarian; Or, Book-collector's Guide ...
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Lowndes'British Librarian, Or Book-collector's Guide to the Formation of a Library in All Branches of Literature, Science, and Art
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Conyers Middleton, D.D.
Author: Conyers MiddletonThe Church of England and Christian Antiquity
Author: Jean-Louis QuantinPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
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 how, between the Reformation and the last years of the Restoration, the rationale behind the Church of England's reliance on the Fathers as authorities on doctrinal controversies, changed significantly. Elizabethan divines, exactly like their Reformed counterparts on the Continent, used the Church Fathers to vindicate the Reformation from Roman Catholic charges of novelty, but firmly rejected the authority of tradition. They stressed that, on all questions controverted, there was simply no consensus of the Fathers. Beginning with the 'avant-garde conformists' of early Stuart England, the reference to antiquity became more and more prominent in the construction of a new confessional identity, in contradistinction both to Rome and to Continental Protestants, which, by 1680, may fairly be called 'Anglican'. English divines now gave to patristics the very highest of missions. In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth. As the identity of the Church of England was thus redefined, its past was reinvented. This appeal to the Fathers boosted the self-confidence of the English clergy and helped them to surmount the crises of the 1650s and 1680s. But it also undermined the orthodoxy that it was supposed to support.