All One with Tom Thumb
Arminianism, Popery, and the Story of the Reformation in Early Stuart Cambridge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3482988 |
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| Authors | Margo Todd (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-579 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3168838 |
| OpenAlex | W2094727873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Historians of early-seventeenth-century English religion are deeply divided over whether the church of the 1630s was characterized by more general theological and liturgical agreement and tolerant ecumenism, or by escalating conflict over theology and ceremonies, driven in part by virulent anti-popery and culminating in the violence of the 1640s. Those who see conflict acknowledge that such categories as Puritan and Anglican are unwarranted for what was really a spectrum of opinion, with the moderate range heavily occupied. Still, they find antecedents of the Civil War in longstanding quarrels over theology and ceremony. For those who find the Caroline church a consensual body, on the other hand, the causes of that war "remain elusive." Having discarded as simplistic the plot line of the received version, which proceeds inexorably from Elizabethan dissent to "Puritan Revolution," they now substitute short-term contingency and the sudden flourishing of a lunatic fringe. In the process of trying to sort out the complexity of contemporary theological opinion, they have lost the thread of the story they were trying to tell
Ceremony · Dissent · Flourishing · Lunatic · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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