James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and EnglandOUP Oxford, 21 cze 2007 - 328 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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... clergy, Luke Challoner, prebendary of Mulhuddert and Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, to debate with him. Both refused. Frustrated, he was reduced to shouting challenges at passers-by from his window. Finally, James Ussher ...
... clergy, Luke Challoner, prebendary of Mulhuddert and Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, to debate with him. Both refused. Frustrated, he was reduced to shouting challenges at passers-by from his window. Finally, James Ussher ...
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... clergy remained loyal to the reformed Church of Ireland during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The shallow nature of this loyalty was, however, exposed by the relative ease of the transition back to Catholicism under Mary.20 This ...
... clergy remained loyal to the reformed Church of Ireland during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI. The shallow nature of this loyalty was, however, exposed by the relative ease of the transition back to Catholicism under Mary.20 This ...
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... clergy were similarly disengaged, continuing to serve the cathedral of St Patrick and respond to the myriad twists and tergiversations of politicoreligious policy by doing exactly what they had done before.24 Take the career of Thomas ...
... clergy were similarly disengaged, continuing to serve the cathedral of St Patrick and respond to the myriad twists and tergiversations of politicoreligious policy by doing exactly what they had done before.24 Take the career of Thomas ...
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... clergy and provided those clergy with parishioners willing to hear their sermons. Both proved to be intractable problems. The difficulty in resolving the first was that the Church of Ireland lacked either the financial resources that ...
... clergy and provided those clergy with parishioners willing to hear their sermons. Both proved to be intractable problems. The difficulty in resolving the first was that the Church of Ireland lacked either the financial resources that ...
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... clergy educated in protestant colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. Initially, the protestant leadership came from the former, a pattern which had important implications for the way in which the Church of Ireland developed. The two dominant ...
... clergy educated in protestant colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. Initially, the protestant leadership came from the former, a pattern which had important implications for the way in which the Church of Ireland developed. The two dominant ...
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