Author: Edward StillingfleetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The Works of that Eminent and Most Learned Prelate, Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet, Late Lord Bishop of Worcester: A rational account of the grounds of the Protestant religion
Author: Edward StillingfleetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Saving the Church of England
Author: Daniel C. NormanPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666732230
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
On his second Atlantic voyage, George Whitefield read lengthy quotations from a work of a deceased English cleric. Writing in his journal, he exclaimed, “[These words] deserve to be written in Letters of Gold.” Whitefield’s associate, the American Jonathan Edwards, concurred. That cleric was John Edwards, an anomaly in several respects: a self-proclaimed Calvinist who conformed to the Church of England at a time when most Calvinists left in the Great Ejection of 1662. In leading a public debate against prominent intellectuals of his day, including John Locke and Samuel Clarke, over the definition of orthodox Christianity, he allied himself with the same church leaders who decried his Calvinist theology. Edwards retired in his mid-fifties due to “ill health”—a retirement in which he wrote over forty scholarly books. At the heart of his concern was the unity and doctrinal orthodoxy of the church, themes over which contentious disputes have reverberated throughout church history. Saving the Church of England tells the story of why the church was in trouble and of John Edwards’s heroic effort to save it.
The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker
Author: Michael BrydonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199204810
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Richard Hooker has long been viewed as the first systematic defender of Anglicanism, as a via media between Roman Catholicism and Reformed Protestantism. In the last twenty years this traditional assumption has been increasingly challenged, however, and it has been argued that Hooker was a Reformed figure whose Anglican credentials are the invention of the Oxford Movement. Whilst the theological ambiguity of Hooker remains perplexing, it is clear that the seventeenth century, not the nineteenth, was responsible for the creation of his reputation as a leading Anglican father. Michael Brydon examines how, during a period of both religious and political consolidation, Hooker became both an authoritative figure and an Anglican emblem. He demonstrates how Reformed suspicions of Hooker, combined with a Catholic desire to exploit his perceived sympathies, helped secure his status as a distinctive English writer. This led to his subsequent adoption by the avant-garde churchmen and his enthronement at the Restoration, through Isaac Walton's biography, as the epitome of the Anglican identity. Unsurprisingly, the unfolding of contemporary crises led to some reappraisal of his standing. The Glorious Revolution meant that Hooker's previously unpalatable belief in an original political compact now came to the forefront and his vision of a national Church was replaced with an established one. Nevertheless, whilst the boundaries of Anglican comprehensiveness have expanded and contracted in response to particular situations, the belief that Hooker was the unparalleled guardian of the English Church has remained remarkably constant ever since."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy
Author: Daniel GarberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537216
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876
Author: New South Wales. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at Göttingen: v. 1-4. Books printed between 1701 and 1800
Author: Bernhard FabianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Author: The Common-Sense Philosophy of Religion of Bishop Edward Stillingfleet 1635–1699
Author: Robert Todd CarrollPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
I. Reason and Religion "Si on soumet tout a la raison, notre religion n'aura rien de mysterieux et de surnaturel; si on choque les principes de la raison, notre religion sera absurde et ridicule",l In this passage from his Pensees Pascal summarizes what is perhaps the most basic problem for the defender of the reasonableness of Christianity: the necessity of upholding beliefs which Reason is incapable of judging, while at the same time claiming that those beliefs are reasonable. Pascal does not state the problem in precisely these terms regarding the limits of Reason, yet it seems clear that the dilemma he is indicating involves the question of the relation of religious beliefs to the compass of Reason. He does not, however-at least in the passage cited-indicate that the problem is a question of either/or: either Reason and no Religion, or Religion and Irrationality. Rather, he seems to be simply stating what he perceives to be a simple matter of fact. If Reason is allowed to be the judge of all Religion, then all Religion must abandon any elements that are either contrary to reason or cannot be shown to be in accord with Reason. On the other hand, if Reason is not allowed to judge Religion at all, then Religion will be absurd and ridiculous.
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy: R-Z
Author: A. C. GraylingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, British
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The Microbook Library of English Literature: 1660 to 1784
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description