Questions for class discussion

1. What is distinctive about Anglicanism?
How did the Church of England become
Anglican? Consider the ideas, policies, and
events from the second half of the sixteenth
century to 1700.

2. What effects did an eschatalogical
outlook have in Reformation Europe? What
factors imposed limits on this outlook?
Identifications

Chapter 12: Anglicanism, Richard Hooker,
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, adiaphora,
Lancelot Andrewes, James I, avant-garde
conformism, Arminians, William Laud,
Westminster Confession, Interregnum,
Restoration, Act of Toleration (1689), HalfWay Covenant, Quakers

Chapter 13: Gregorian calendar, Joachim of
Fiore, Malleus maleficarum, greasing, Martin
Del Rio
Coda: A British Legacy, 1600-1700

New English Beginnings: Richard Hooker and
Lancelot Andrewes

Early Stuart England: The Church’s Golden
Age?

War in Three Kingdoms, 1638-60

A Spectrum of Protestantisms, 1660-1700

American Beginnings
New English Beginnings: Richard
Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes

Richard Hooker, The Laws
of Ecclesiastical Polity
(1594/1597)
 history
and scripture
 predestination
sacraments
 sacraments
preaching
–
/ liturgy –
New English Beginnings: Richard
Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes

Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
 Dean
of Westminster Abbey (1601), Bishop of
Chichester (1605), Ely (1609), Winchester (1618)

Reformation as foreign

Labels
 Anglo-Catholicism
 Arminianism
 avant-garde
conformists
Westminster Abbey and Choir
New English Beginnings

Settlement of 1559
 survival
of
cathedrals
 role

of bishop
York Minster
(ca. 1230-1472)
CHORAL EVENSONG, BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r
Early Stuart England: The Church’s Golden Age

James I the Curious

Arminians vs. Puritans [Synod of Dort,
1618]

Charles I the High Churchman
 William
Laud, Archbishop of
Canterbury
 “Counter-Reformation
Jesuits” (517)
 neither
without the
Rome nor the Reformation
Peterhouse
Chapel,
Cambridge
University
Peterhouse Chapel, Cambridge University
War in Three Kingdoms, 1638-60

Charles I the
Combative
 trouble
in Scotland
 parliament
strikes
back, 1640, 1641
 revolt
 Civil
1649
in Ireland
War, 1642-
War in Three Kingdoms

Presbyterians and
Independents
 Westminster
(1646)
Confession

Oliver Cromwell, Protector

religious pluralism
 Diggers,
 return
Ranters, Quakers
of Jews
A Spectrum of Protestantisms, 16601700

Restoration 1660
 Charles
lands
II, bishops, church
 departure
of almost 3000
clergy (1662)

Anglican Church
 “an
interestingly subtle and
reflective version of
Christianity” (531)
 establishment:
outside
inside /
A Spectrum of Protestantisms, 1660-1700

James II the Impolitic

William III

Toleration Act 1689
American Beginnings

Virginia (1607) and Anglicanism

New England → Massachusetts
 Puritans,
Congregationalism
 Half-Way
Covenant
 Separatists
 missionary
→ Rhode Island
work: John Eliot
American Beginnings

From toleration to liberty
 Rhode
Island (1647)
 Maryland:
Toleration Act 1649
 William
Penn (1644-1718) →
Pennsylvania
 Presbyterians,
Anabaptists
Lutherans,
Changing Times

Gregorian calendar
 1582
 Tomb
of Gregory
XIII, St. Peter’s
Basilica
Changing Times: Time Ending

the Reformation
and the Last
Days

Antichrist

Apocalypse
Now: Heinrich
Bullinger
Changing Times: Hearing God’s Voice

portents aplenty

fasting
Changing Times: Fighting Antichrist: Idols

violence and order

defeating images
 St.
Martin’s
Cathedral, Utrecht

replacing images with
words

William Dowsing’s
personal war on the
“monuments of
superstition”
Changing Times: Fighting Antichrist: Idols

“The temple well purged” from Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs (1563)
Changing Times: Fighting Antichrist: Witches

geography of the witch
hunt

Malleus maleficarum (1487)

Martin Del Rio SJ,
Disquisitionum magicarum
libri sex (1595)
Changing Times: Fighting Antichrist:
Witches

“Why did witch-persecution not go the way
of Transubstantiation?” (567)
 Reformation
 Last
of Manners
Days
 delusions
of power
 convergence
of popular and elite beliefs
Changing Times: Fighting Antichrist: Witches

a battle of books
 Johann
Weyer, De
praestigiis daemonum
(1563)
 James
(1597)
 North
VI, Demonologie
Berwick
 exorcisms
 English
in England
scepticism
 enthusiasm
of the Kirk