Church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, c. 1635-66

• Main Authors: Vernon, Elliot, Powell, Hunter
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 16.01.2020
• Edition: 1
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Great Britain-Politics and government-1603-1714; History; Religion

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time. It explores debates concerning the relationship between church, state and people, the nature of the various post-Reformation settlements in the British Atla...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Acknowledgements Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction: Chapter 2: ‘From the Apostles’ time’: Chapter 3: Peers, pastors and the particular church: Chapter 4: ‘One of the least things in religion’: Chapter 5: Polity, discipline and theology: Chapter 6: Presbyterian ecclesiologies at the Westminster assembly Chapter 7: ‘They agree not in opinion among themselves’: Chapter 8: The New England way reconsidered: Chapter 9: The association movement and the politics of church settlement during the interregnum Chapter 10: Polity and peacemaking: Chapter 11: ‘Promote, protect, prosecute’: Chapter 12: The Restoration episcopate and the interregnum: Index
• Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: church polity and politics in the British Atlantic world, c. 1635-66 -- 'From the Apostles' time': the polity of the British episcopal churches, 1603-62 -- Peers, pastors and the particular church: the failure of congregational ideas in the Mersey Basin region, 1636-41 -- 'One of the least things in religion': the Welsh experience of church polity, 1640-60 -- Polity, discipline and theology: the importance of the covenant in Scottish presbyterianism, 1560-c. 1700 -- Presbyterian ecclesiologies at the Westminster assembly -- 'They agree not in opinion among themselves': two-kingdoms theory, 'Erastianism' and the Westminster assembly debate on church and state, c. 1641-48 -- The New England way reconsidered: an exploration of church polity and the governance of the region's churches -- The association movement and the politics of church settlement during the interregnum -- Polity and peacemaking: to what extent was Richard Baxter a congregationalist? -- 'Promote, protect, prosecute': the congregationalist divines and the establishment of church and magistrate in Cromwellian England -- The Restoration episcopate and the interregnum: autobiography, suffering and professions of faith -- Index