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15613 results in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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  • Thomas Goodwin and the Debate on Church Government

  • David Walker
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 85-99
    Print publication:
    January 1983

  • When the Westminster Assembly convened in 1643, English puritans were confident that their effort to reform the government and liturgy of the Church of England would at last be completed. Their expectations were not fulfilled. In the early sessions of the Assembly the ‘dissenting brethren’, a group of clerical Independents led by Thomas Goodwin, opposed the establishment of a national Church on a Presbyterian model. The Independents claimed to be as orthodox as the other members of the Assembly in matters of doctrine, but they could find in scripture no ground for synods exercising the authority of excommunication. So deep was the dissension they created that, in spite of all Presbyterian attempts at reconciliation, spiritual harmony was not restored to the puritan crusade.

  • ECH volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. f1-f2
    Print publication:
    January 1983
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  • Preaching to the Laity in Fifteenth-Century Germany: Johannes Nider's ‘Harps’

  • John Dahmus
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 55-68
    Print publication:
    January 1983

  • Bernd Moeller concludes in his often-quoted study of late medieval German piety that ‘one could dare to call the late fifteenth century in Germany one of the most churchly-minded and devout periods of the Middle Ages’. In his review of Moeller's work, W. D.J. Cargill Thompson points out that the ‘profound conservatism’ of this religiosity, which included devotion to the mass, veneration of saints and their relics, and the reading of vast amounts of religious literature, poses a problem for our understanding of the causes of the Reformation. How does one reconcile this traditional churchliness with the ‘remarkable suddenness’ of its collapse after 1520? One would have expected greater resistance to Lutheran ideas than actually occurred.

  • The Authorities and Early Restoration Quakerism

  • Barry Reay
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2011, pp. 69-84
    Print publication:
    January 1983

  • The Restoration was a victory for the governing classes, a victory for social stability and discipline. Dissent, the gentry argued, led to republicanism and social disintegration: Anglicanism and the monarchy meant order. Yet despite the ease with which Charles it returned in 1660 and the relative lack of bloodshed which accompanied his restoration, it was by no means certain that the settlement would be anything more than transitory. God, in his infinite and impenetrable

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