Dissenters at the Centre of the Action: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559–1689

Debates over the location of Church power, the office of ruling elder, ordination and the Lord's Supper rumbled on. The result was to many English and Scottish Presbyterians 'a lame Erastian presbytery' lacking the 'necessary power to effect reformation' (62) whose 'pie...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 26; pp. 110 - 116
Main Author Daniel, Robert W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2022
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Summary:Debates over the location of Church power, the office of ruling elder, ordination and the Lord's Supper rumbled on. The result was to many English and Scottish Presbyterians 'a lame Erastian presbytery' lacking the 'necessary power to effect reformation' (62) whose 'piecemeal' (64) reforms were 'incomplete and ramshackle' (65). Rather they represented the 'forces of order and stability', wielding political authority and 'playing an increasingly influential role in the seventeenth-century British empire' (267). The essays in this section evince the familial and social networks that bound some 'fellow Bartholomeans' across seemingly chasmic geographic and religious divides (171).
ISSN:0954-0970