James Ussher : theology, history, and politics in early-modern Ireland and England
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
Biographies
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
9780191534430, 9786611164584, 0191534439, 6611164588
191671881
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