James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and EnglandOUP Oxford, 21.06.2007 - 328 Seiten Though known today largely for dating the creation of the world to 4004BC, James Ussher (1581-1656) was an important scholar and ecclesiastical leader in the seventeenth century. As Professor of Theology at Trinity College Dublin, and Archbishop of Armagh from 1625, he shaped the newly protestant Church of Ireland. Tracing its roots back to St Patrick, he gave it a sense of Irish identity and provided a theology which was strongly Calvinist and fiercely anti-Catholic. In exile in England in the 1640s he advised both king and parliament, trying to heal the ever-widening rift by devising a compromise over church government. Forced finally to choose sides by the outbreak of civil war in 1642, Ussher opted for the royalists, but found it difficult to combine his loyalty to Charles with his detestation of Catholicism. A meticulous scholar and an extensive researcher, Ussher had a breathtaking command of languages and disciplines - 'learned to a miracle' according to one of his friends. He worked on a series of problems: the early history of bishops, the origins of Christianity in Ireland and Britain, and the implications of double predestination, making advances which were to prove of lasting significance. Tracing the interconnections between this scholarship and his wider ecclesiastical and political interests, Alan Ford throws new light on the character and attitudes of a seminal figure in the history of Irish Protestantism. |
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Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England Alan Ford. Theology, History, and Politics in Early–Modern Ireland and England ALAN FORD 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press James Ussher.
Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England Alan Ford. Theology, History, and Politics in Early–Modern Ireland and England ALAN FORD 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press James Ussher.
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... Oxford University Press reader, who not only read the massive typescript with astonishing speed, but came up with a series of penetrating and helpful suggestions for improving it. My final debts are to Ronnie Wallace, Aidan Clarke ...
... Oxford University Press reader, who not only read the massive typescript with astonishing speed, but came up with a series of penetrating and helpful suggestions for improving it. My final debts are to Ronnie Wallace, Aidan Clarke ...
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... Oxford 1500–1714, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1891–2) David Laing (ed.), The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (Edinburgh, 1841) Nicholas Bernard, The life and death of the most reverend and learned father of the church Dr James Usher late ...
... Oxford 1500–1714, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1891–2) David Laing (ed.), The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (Edinburgh, 1841) Nicholas Bernard, The life and death of the most reverend and learned father of the church Dr James Usher late ...
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... (Oxford, 1847–60) Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant ... (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, and F. J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland: IX. Maps ...
... (Oxford, 1847–60) Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant ... (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, and F. J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland: IX. Maps ...
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