''Settling the Peace of the Church'' - 1662 Revisited

Zusatztext This collection is to be commended, for it does what the blurb claims in that 'it constitutes the most wide-ranging and sustained discussion of this episode for fifty years. Informationen zum Autor N. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at University of Stirling. Klappentext A collection of nine essays on the context and consequences of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the subsequent 'Great Ejection', in which around two thousand ministers, teachers, and university fellows gave up their positions rather than submit to the conditions of the Act. Zusammenfassung A collection of nine essays on the context and consequences of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the subsequent 'Great Ejection', in which around two thousand ministers, teachers, and university fellows gave up their positions rather than submit to the conditions of the Act. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Attempting Uniformity 1: Jacqueline Rose: The Debate over Authority: Adiaphora, the Civil Magistrate, and the Settlement of Religion 2: Paul Seaward: 'Circumstantial temporary concessions': Clarendon, Comprehension, and Uniformity 3: Michael Davies: 'The silencing of God's dear Ministers': John Bunyan and his Church in 1662 4: Robert Armstrong: The Bishops of Ireland and the Beasts at Ephesus: Reconstruction, Conformity, and the Presbyterian Knot, 1660-62 5: Alasdair Raffe: Presbyterian Politics and the Restoration of Scottish Episcopacy, 1660-62 6: Cory Cotter: Going Dutch: Beyond Black Bartholomew's Day 7: Owen Stanwood: Crisis and Opportunity: the Restoration Church Settlement and New England 8: N. H. Keeble: The Nonconformist Narrative of the Bartholomeans 9: Mark Burden: John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy and Church of England Responses to the Ejections of 1660-62 Index

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• Authors: N. H. Keeble, N. H. (Professor Emeritus of English Studi Keeble
• Assisted by: N. H. Keeble (Editor), N. H. (Professor Emeritus of English Studies Keeble (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9780199688531
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968853-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; England, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Christianity, History of Religion, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Church history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches