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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | James Ussher |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Ford |
OCLC Number: | 1132077159 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 23 avril 2010). |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xi, 315 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction ; PART I: USSHER IN IRELAND ; 1. Controversy and religious identity in sixteenth-century Ireland ; 2. Intellectual formation: Trinity College, Dublin ; 3. Ussher and the shaping of Irish protestant theology ; 4. Ussher and the Irish articles of 1615 ; 5. Theology and politics: 1615-25 ; 6. Religion, history and protestant national identity ; 7. The defence of Calvinism, 1626-33 ; 8. Internal exile: Ussher and Laudianism 1633-40 ; 9. Ussher and Irish history: Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates ; PART II: USSHER IN ENGLAND ; 10. Ussher and the defence of episcopacy ; 11. 'No man can serve two masters': the Civil War and after ; 12. Conclusion: history, theology and politics in Ireland and Britain |
Responsibility: | Alan Ford. |
Abstract:
Though known for dating the creation of the world to 4004BC, James Ussher was an important scholar and ecclesiastical leader in the 17th-century. Tracing the interconnections between the scholarship and his ecclesiastical and political interests, this work throws light on the character of a seminal figure in the history of Irish Protestantism.
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a full, coherent, and compelling account of this most fascinatingly ambigious of scholars and churchmen. * Anthony Milton. The Journal of Theological Studies * a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the role of religion in early modern society. * Nicholas Keene, Ecclesiastic History * [an] excellent study. I can warmly recommend this book to other specialists. * Judith Maltby, Church Times * Read more...
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- Theologians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Christianity and politics.
- Ussher, James, -- 1581-1656.
- Théologiens -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies.
- Christianisme et politique.
- Protestantisme -- Irlande -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Irlande -- Histoire religieuse -- 17e siècle.
- Theologians.
- Great Britain.