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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies Church history History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ford, Alan, 1956- James Ussher. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)84150764 |
Named Person: | James Ussher; James Ussher |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Ford |
ISBN: | 9780191534430 0191534439 9786611164584 6611164588 |
OCLC Number: | 191671881 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) |
Contents: | Abbreviations; Introduction; 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. Defending Calvinism: 1626-33; 8. Internal Exile: Ussher and Laudianism: 1633-40; 9. Ussher and Irish History: Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates; II. USSHER IN ENGLAND; 10. Ussher and the Defence of Episcopacy. |
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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- Ireland -- Church history -- 17th century.
- Théologiens -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies.
- Christianisme et politique.
- Protestantisme -- Irlande -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Irlande -- Histoire religieuse -- 17e siècle.
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
- RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
- Ussher, James, -- 1581-1656
- Protestantism.
- Theologians.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland.