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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... late Billy O'Sullivan; subsequent access has been greatly facilitated by Bernard Meehan, Stuart Ó Seanóir, and everyone in the Manuscripts Department of Trinity College Library. Charles Benson and Áine Keegan have, respectively, helped ...
... late Billy O'Sullivan; subsequent access has been greatly facilitated by Bernard Meehan, Stuart Ó Seanóir, and everyone in the Manuscripts Department of Trinity College Library. Charles Benson and Áine Keegan have, respectively, helped ...
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... late Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland (London, 1656) Nicholas Bernard, Clavi trabales (London, 1661) Nicholas Bernard, The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, 1. Of the extent of Christs ...
... late Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland (London, 1656) Nicholas Bernard, Clavi trabales (London, 1661) Nicholas Bernard, The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, 1. Of the extent of Christs ...
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... Late Reginald Rawdon Hastings, 4 vols. (London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1947) Calendar of the Manuscripts of the ... Marquess of Salisbury, 24 vols. (London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1883–1976) Irish articles of ...
... Late Reginald Rawdon Hastings, 4 vols. (London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1947) Calendar of the Manuscripts of the ... Marquess of Salisbury, 24 vols. (London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1883–1976) Irish articles of ...
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... late invincible Usher, who deserved to be Primate, not onely. 10 W. K. Tweedie (ed.), Select Biographies (Edinburgh, 1847), i. 143. 11 See below, pp. 204, 229. 12 Parr, Life, 78–9. 13 Ibid. 15–16. 14 Henry Fitzsimon, Britannomachia ...
... late invincible Usher, who deserved to be Primate, not onely. 10 W. K. Tweedie (ed.), Select Biographies (Edinburgh, 1847), i. 143. 11 See below, pp. 204, 229. 12 Parr, Life, 78–9. 13 Ibid. 15–16. 14 Henry Fitzsimon, Britannomachia ...
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... late invincible Usher, who deserved to be Primate, not onely of Ireland, but of all the Protestant forces in the world'.19 The provost of Trinity College Dublin, Robert Huntington, in 1685 claimed Ussher was 'one of the greatest ...
... late invincible Usher, who deserved to be Primate, not onely of Ireland, but of all the Protestant forces in the world'.19 The provost of Trinity College Dublin, Robert Huntington, in 1685 claimed Ussher was 'one of the greatest ...
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