James Ussher : theology, history, and politics in early-modern Ireland and England
"This important re-evaluation of James Ussher's life and works - the most thorough for over a hundred and fifty years - traces the interconnections between his scholarship and his wider ecclesiastical and political interests, and throws new light on the character and attitudes of a seminal figure in the history of Irish Protestantism."--Résumé de l'éditeur
Biography
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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
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