On Laudianism : piety, polemic and politics during the personal rule of Charles I /

On Laudianism : piety, polemic and politics during the personal rule of Charles I / Peter Lake.

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"Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention...

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Main Author: Lake, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Subjects:
Laud, William, > 1573-1645.
Charles > I, > King of England, > 1600-1649.
Church of England > History > 17th century.
Church of England.
1600-1699
Political theology > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Church and state > Church of England.
Kings and rulers > Religious aspects > Church of England.
Église et État > Church of England.
Rois et souverains > Aspect religieux > Church of England.
Political theology.
War > Causes.
Great Britain > History > Personal Rule, 1629-1640.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Causes.
Great Britain > Church history > 17th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire religieuse > 17e siècle.
Great Britain.
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A Trinitarian and incarnational theology
  • Andrewes' political theology
  • Andrewes' anti-puritanism
  • Puritan politics
  • The tree of repentance and its fruits
  • Absent presences : the role of predestination in Andrewes' divinity
  • The visible church and its ordinances
  • The house of God
  • The house of God and the beauty of holiness
  • The beauty of holiness and ceremonial conformity
  • Church ceremonies, the authority of the church and the authority of scripture
  • Prayer
  • Preaching
  • The sacrament and the altar
  • The sacrament and the social body of the church
  • The altar and visible succession
  • The feasts and festivals of the church, or putting the sabbath in its place
  • Sunday sports and the re-constitution of the Christian community and the social order
  • The sabbath and the Laudian attitude to authority
  • Order, puritanism and the state of the English church
  • Puritan 'privacy', or the forms of puritan voluntary religion anatomised
  • A religion of the word and the question of authority
  • Puritanism, popularity and politics
  • Of moderate puritans and popular prelates
  • The puritan threat, the church of England and the Personal Rule as a period of reformation.
  • Laudianism, puritanism and Arminianism revisited
  • The language of mystery
  • Fatal necessity
  • Predestination, the positive case : of justice and mercy, prescience and predestination
  • Faith, hope and charity
  • Effort without merit : repentance, amendment and the works of penitence
  • Dis-aggregating, or the pleasures and benefits of splitting
  • Of converts, collaborators and apostates (i) : puritans
  • Of converts, collaborators and apostates (ii) : Calvinist conformists
  • Of apparatchiks, zealots, and coming men
  • The Laudian avant garde, (i) young men in a hurry : Cambridge University in the 1630s
  • The Laudian avant garde, (ii) old men in a hurry : Robert Shelford, James Buck and Edward Kellett
  • Tacking and trimming : negotiating the end of 'the Laudian moment.'

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