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Januar/2024

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82-84

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Kirchengeschichte: Neuzeit

Autor/Hrsg.:

Pagán, Jonathan Warren

Titel/Untertitel:

Giles Firmin and the Transatlantic Puritan Tradition. Polity, Piety, and Polemic.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2020. VIII, 318 S. = Studies in the History of Christian Tradition, 193. Geb. EUR 119,00. ISBN 9789004412910.

Rezensent:

Paul Silas Peterson

In the long wake of the anti-episcopacy Marprelate tracts of the 1580s, both before and especially after the English Civil War (or Parliamentarian Revolution), and the arrest in 1641 and later execution of the (authoritarian) Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud on 10 January 1645 (not 1643, [64]), English Protestantism, on both sides of the Atlantic (to differing degrees and in very different contexts), was engulfed in ecclesiological and theological debates, especially regarding church order, oversight appointments, the rules of worship, soteriology and sacramentology. These were magnified in the second half of the century after the reestablishment of the monarchy in 1660, the return of an archbishop and ensuing persecution of the »Dissenters«. This highly variegated dispute about ...


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