Kenneth Fincham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Fincham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Fincham |
| SIGNATURE | FINCHAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Charles II and ‘Liberty to Tender Consciences’: An Unpublished Royal Declaration of November 1661
A newly discovered unpublished declaration of Charles II on ‘ecclesiastical affairs’ of November 1661 allows us to reassess the making of the religious settlement of 1660–3. The declaration contains a review of developments since his return to England and demonstrates the king’s unwavering commitment to honour his promise at Breda of a ‘liberty to tender consciences’ to accompany the return of episcopal government and worship with the Prayer Book…
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1
This article aims to explain the failure of the English presbyterian programme to reform the church at the Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the period between March 1660, when the Long Parliament reaffirmed the Solemn League and Covenant, and May 1661, when the Cavalier Parliament ordered that document to be burned by the common hangman. This striking transformation is what we refer to as the ‘presbyterian conundrum’. Focusing primarily on …
The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy, by Seth D. Osborne
Journal Article The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy, by Seth D. Osborne Get access The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy, by Seth D. Osborne (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022; pp. 417. €150). Kenneth Fincham Kenneth Fincham University of Kent, Canterbury, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
William Temple and William Laud
A comparison of attempts by Archbishops William Temple and William Laud to shape values within a society, with a particular focus on Temple's Christianity and Social Order
John Witheridge, In the Shadow of Death: A Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury
Charles I
The King James Bible: Crown, Church and People
This essay addresses several unresolved problems associated with the production, dissemination and reception of the King James Bible. It argues that James i ’s initial enthusiasm was not sustained and that Archbishop Bancroft was the key figure for seeing the translation through to completion. His death, just before the Bible appeared, explains why there was no order for its purchase by parishes. Instead, its acquisition was left to individual bi…
Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1979)
This essay seeks to explain the least celebrated of Patrick Collinson's books. It begins by looking at how it has seemed to be too much under the shadow of its predecessor, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement , and had a little imprudently been preceded by three essays that rather stole its thunder. Too many scholars have wrongly thought what was left was the husk rather than the kernel of Edmund Grindal. So they missed a masterly marriage of deep a…
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism, by Patrick Collinson
Here, in a book written amid his terminal illness and published posthumously, Patrick Collinson revisits the fortunes of English Presbyterians from the ‘conformist turn’ of the later 1570s through to the Hampton Court Conference of 1604—territory he made his own in his magisterial Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967; rev. ante, lxxxiii [1968], 833–4), but this time traced through the activities of their inveterate opponent, Richard Bancroft. The c…
This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century
Vital Statistics: Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, 1646-60
ON 25 September 1659, the funeral of Thomas Morton, the nonagenarian bishop of Durham, took place at St Peter's Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire. The preacher praised Morton's faithful service ‘as a bishop till the very last gasp’ and cited ‘his late ordinations of priests and deacons here among you, whereof some here present received the benefit, and many more can give the testimony’.1 It is well-known that between 1646 and 1660, several bishop…
Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I
This is a study of the sixty-six bishops who held office during the reign of James I. Kenneth Fincham surveys their range of activities and functions, including their part in central politics, their role in local society, their work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline, and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal fortunes at court and in …
Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700
By looking at what happened physically in the local churches, in contrast to the formal enactments of government, and using sources such as churchwardens' accounts and surviving religious artefacts, the book recaptures the experience of the ordinary parishioner in this crucial period of religious change.
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History
Reconstructing Clerical Careers: The Experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database
The Clergy of the Church of England Database, a project funded by the AHRB, began work in 1999 with the aim of constructing a relational database covering all clerical careers in the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. This article outlines the methodology and scope of the project before discussing some of the intellectual problems posed by the task of constructing a database that reflects the complexities of an irrational, pre-bureaucratic …
According to Ancient Custom’: The Return of Altars in the Restoration Church of England
Despite its association with the ill-fated reforms of Archbishop Laud in the 1630s and its dubious legality, the railed altar re-appeared in parish churches in the years after 1660. Initially only a handful of parishes and a minority of bishops backed so controversial a change, but the reconstruction of the city churches in London after the fire of 1666 popularised the railed altar, which was adopted elsewhere, particularly during the tory reacti…
Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
The Restoration of Altars in the 1630s
The nationwide campaign to erect railed altars in the 1630s has always been seen as a central feature of the Laudian reformation of the Church. Recently some scholars have denied its close association with Laud and Arminian sacramentalism, and have proposed that the policy originated with Charles I, to be reluctantly endorsed by his archbishop. As for its enforcement, Julian Davies has identified at least five variants which were implemented in t…
William Laud and the Exercise of Caroline Ecclesiastical Patronage
Recent work on the 1630s has challenged the established view of Archbishop Laud's central role in the formulation and enforcement of ecclesiastical policy. Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have proposed that Charles I was the initiator of religious change, with his archbishop often trailing in his wake, and finding ways to qualify, if not subvert, royal directives on preaching, the Sabbath and the altar. Davies has also argued that an ideology of ‘…
Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself
Journal Article Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself Get access KENNETH FINCHAM, KENNETH FINCHAM University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 856–881, https…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access KENNETH FINCHAM KENNETH FINCHAM University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 999–1000, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.999 Published: 01 September 1995
Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church: I. 1603-25
`An invaluable source for ecclesiastical history... promises to be a highly important record series.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This is the first of two volumes which reproduce manuscript and printed documents for the years 1603-1642. The articles issued by archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and others exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction have been frequently used by historians as evidence of the priorities and concerns of church government, but…
An uncounselled king: Charles I and the Scottish troubles 1637–1641
(1994). An uncounselled king: Charles I and the Scottish troubles 1637–1641. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 597-598
The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642
Each volume in the 'Problems in Focus' series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter in their courses. Each volume is devoted to a central topic or theme, and the most important aspects of this are dealt with by specially commissioned essays from scholars in the relevant field. The editorial Introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole, and each essay provid…
The Ecclesiastical Policy of King James I
In a sermon preached at Hampton Court on September 30, 1606, John King proclaimed that “our Solomon or Pacificus liveth.” James I had “turned swords into sithes and spears into mattocks, and set peace within the borders of his own kingdoms and of nations about us.” His care for the “Church and maintenance to it” was celebrated. All that remained was for his subjects to lay aside contentious matters and join “with his religious majesty in propagat…
The Restoration of Altars in the 1630s
The nationwide campaign to erect railed altars in the 1630s has always been seen as a central feature of the Laudian reformation of the Church. Recently some scholars have denied its close association with Laud and Arminian sacramentalism, and have proposed that the policy originated with Charles I, to be reluctantly endorsed by his archbishop. As for its enforcement, Julian Davies has identified at least five variants which were implemented in t…
Vital Statistics: Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, 1646-60
ON 25 September 1659, the funeral of Thomas Morton, the nonagenarian bishop of Durham, took place at St Peter's Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire. The preacher praised Morton's faithful service ‘as a bishop till the very last gasp’ and cited ‘his late ordinations of priests and deacons here among you, whereof some here present received the benefit, and many more can give the testimony’.1 It is well-known that between 1646 and 1660, several bishop…
William Laud and the Exercise of Caroline Ecclesiastical Patronage
Recent work on the 1630s has challenged the established view of Archbishop Laud's central role in the formulation and enforcement of ecclesiastical policy. Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have proposed that Charles I was the initiator of religious change, with his archbishop often trailing in his wake, and finding ways to qualify, if not subvert, royal directives on preaching, the Sabbath and the altar. Davies has also argued that an ideology of ‘…
Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself
Journal Article Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself Get access KENNETH FINCHAM, KENNETH FINCHAM University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 856–881, https…
Reconstructing Clerical Careers: The Experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database
The Clergy of the Church of England Database, a project funded by the AHRB, began work in 1999 with the aim of constructing a relational database covering all clerical careers in the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. This article outlines the methodology and scope of the project before discussing some of the intellectual problems posed by the task of constructing a database that reflects the complexities of an irrational, pre-bureaucratic …
Personalities and Politics in Early Stuart England
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The Judges' Decision on Ship Money in February 1367: The Reaction of Kent
Contemporary Opinions of Thomas Weelkes
Journal Article CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS OF THOMAS WEELKES Get access KENNETH FINCHAM KENNETH FINCHAM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 62, Issue 3-4, July 1981, Pages 352–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/62.3-4.352 Published: 01 July 1981
The Judges' Decision on Ship Money in February 1367: The Reaction of Kent
Ramifications of the Hampton Court Conference in the Dioceses, 1603–1609
We finding (right dread and soveraigne Lord), in the sacred records of God that the most worthy kings set over his people sanctifyed the entrance of their raigne with clensing the house of God from all idolatry and sup er stition and reforming the ministers thereof, according to the order appointed by God; the safest and surest way to establish the thrones of kings to themselves and their posterity. And we acknowledging with all thankfulnes to Go…
The Ecclesiastical Policy of King James I
In a sermon preached at Hampton Court on September 30, 1606, John King proclaimed that “our Solomon or Pacificus liveth.” James I had “turned swords into sithes and spears into mattocks, and set peace within the borders of his own kingdoms and of nations about us.” His care for the “Church and maintenance to it” was celebrated. All that remained was for his subjects to lay aside contentious matters and join “with his religious majesty in propagat…
Personalities and Politics in Early Stuart England
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Prelacy and Politics: Archbishop Abbot's Defence of Protestant Orthodoxy
Journal Article Prelacy and Politics: Archbishop Abbot's Defence of Protestant Orthodoxy Get access Kenneth Fincham Kenneth Fincham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 61, Issue 144, February 1988, Pages 36–64, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01989.x Published: 12 October 2007
Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I
This is a study of the sixty-six bishops who held office during the reign of James I. Kenneth Fincham surveys their range of activities and functions, including their part in central politics, their role in local society, their work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline, and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal fortunes at court and in …
Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I
The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642
Each volume in the 'Problems in Focus' series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter in their courses. Each volume is devoted to a central topic or theme, and the most important aspects of this are dealt with by specially commissioned essays from scholars in the relevant field. The editorial Introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole, and each essay provid…
Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church: I. 1603-25
`An invaluable source for ecclesiastical history... promises to be a highly important record series.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This is the first of two volumes which reproduce manuscript and printed documents for the years 1603-1642. The articles issued by archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and others exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction have been frequently used by historians as evidence of the priorities and concerns of church government, but…
An uncounselled king: Charles I and the Scottish troubles 1637–1641
(1994). An uncounselled king: Charles I and the Scottish troubles 1637–1641. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 597-598
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access KENNETH FINCHAM KENNETH FINCHAM University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 999–1000, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.999 Published: 01 September 1995
Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself
Journal Article Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself Get access KENNETH FINCHAM, KENNETH FINCHAM University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 443, September 1996, Pages 856–881, https…
William Laud and the Exercise of Caroline Ecclesiastical Patronage
Recent work on the 1630s has challenged the established view of Archbishop Laud's central role in the formulation and enforcement of ecclesiastical policy. Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have proposed that Charles I was the initiator of religious change, with his archbishop often trailing in his wake, and finding ways to qualify, if not subvert, royal directives on preaching, the Sabbath and the altar. Davies has also argued that an ideology of ‘…
Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
The Restoration of Altars in the 1630s
The nationwide campaign to erect railed altars in the 1630s has always been seen as a central feature of the Laudian reformation of the Church. Recently some scholars have denied its close association with Laud and Arminian sacramentalism, and have proposed that the policy originated with Charles I, to be reluctantly endorsed by his archbishop. As for its enforcement, Julian Davies has identified at least five variants which were implemented in t…
According to Ancient Custom’: The Return of Altars in the Restoration Church of England
Despite its association with the ill-fated reforms of Archbishop Laud in the 1630s and its dubious legality, the railed altar re-appeared in parish churches in the years after 1660. Initially only a handful of parishes and a minority of bishops backed so controversial a change, but the reconstruction of the city churches in London after the fire of 1666 popularised the railed altar, which was adopted elsewhere, particularly during the tory reacti…
Reconstructing Clerical Careers: The Experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database
The Clergy of the Church of England Database, a project funded by the AHRB, began work in 1999 with the aim of constructing a relational database covering all clerical careers in the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. This article outlines the methodology and scope of the project before discussing some of the intellectual problems posed by the task of constructing a database that reflects the complexities of an irrational, pre-bureaucratic …
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History
Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700
By looking at what happened physically in the local churches, in contrast to the formal enactments of government, and using sources such as churchwardens' accounts and surviving religious artefacts, the book recaptures the experience of the ordinary parishioner in this crucial period of religious change.
Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I
This is a study of the sixty-six bishops who held office during the reign of James I. Kenneth Fincham surveys their range of activities and functions, including their part in central politics, their role in local society, their work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline, and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal fortunes at court and in …
Vital Statistics: Episcopal Ordination and Ordinands in England, 1646-60
ON 25 September 1659, the funeral of Thomas Morton, the nonagenarian bishop of Durham, took place at St Peter's Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire. The preacher praised Morton's faithful service ‘as a bishop till the very last gasp’ and cited ‘his late ordinations of priests and deacons here among you, whereof some here present received the benefit, and many more can give the testimony’.1 It is well-known that between 1646 and 1660, several bishop…
This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism, by Patrick Collinson
Here, in a book written amid his terminal illness and published posthumously, Patrick Collinson revisits the fortunes of English Presbyterians from the ‘conformist turn’ of the later 1570s through to the Hampton Court Conference of 1604—territory he made his own in his magisterial Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967; rev. ante, lxxxiii [1968], 833–4), but this time traced through the activities of their inveterate opponent, Richard Bancroft. The c…
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