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Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640

Hardback

Main Details

Title Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anthony Milton
SeriesCambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:620
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
Christianity
ISBN/Barcode 9780521401418
ClassificationsDewey:274.206
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 March 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Religious controversy was central to political conflict in the years before the English Civil War. Where earlier historians have focused more narrowly on the doctrine of predestination, Dr Milton analyses the broader attitudes which underlay notions of religious orthodoxy. Through the first comprehensive analysis of how contemporaries viewed the Roman and foreign Reformed churches in the early Stuart period, Milton demonstrates the way in which an author's choice of a particular style of religious discourse could be used either to mediate or to provoke religious conflict. This study challenges many current historical orthodoxies. It identifies the theological novelty of Laudianism, but also exposes areas of ideological tension within the Jacobean Church. Its wide-ranging conclusions will be of vital concern to students of early Stuart religion and the origins of the English Civil War.

Reviews

'... an enormously subtle and sophisticated book which represents a major advance in our understanding of the early Stuart Church ... a profound and important achievement: the religious landscape of early seventeenth-century England will never look the same again.' History Today