William Perkins's anti-popery and its underlying worldview in historical context
<p>Drawing upon a historically situated reading of Perkins’s entire corpus that simultaneously compares select parts of Perkins’s thought to that of his English and continental contemporaries, this dissertation makes three overarching arguments. First, anti-popery served to unify and develop P...
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| description | <p>Drawing upon a historically situated reading of Perkins’s entire corpus that simultaneously compares select parts of Perkins’s thought to that of his English and continental contemporaries, this dissertation makes three overarching arguments. First, anti-popery served to unify and develop Perkins’s thought. In so doing, this dissertation argues that scholars of anti-popery have frequently focused too narrowly on specific topics or a particular genre of works. Second, Perkins believed that Roman Catholicism promulgated not only a different and dangerous understanding of Christian teaching but also a divergent underlying worldview. When comparing Perkins’s anti-popery to the beliefs of Rome and at times those of the Church of England, Perkins’s anti-popery disproportionately focused on ideas like the family, covenant, and invisible church. Third, contrary to the view that has dominated scholarship from Rosemary Sisson (1952) to W. B. Patterson (2014), Perkins is best understood not as an apologist for the English Church’s doctrine and polity. Instead, Perkins’s anti-popery both energized his reformed ideals of making structural changes to the English Church and, paradoxically, constrained the expression of these same ideals. In so doing, this dissertation explores what Perkins’s anti-popery reveals about his relationship with historiographical categories like moderate puritan, puritan, Calvinist conformist, reformed conformist, and prayer book puritan.</p>
<p>Finally, this dissertation aims to answer broader questions like: (1) How did anti-popery function in Perkins’s corpus? (2) What underlying mentalities, assumptions, and intuitions drove Perkins’s anti-popery? and (3) How did Perkins’s broader historical context shape and inform his anti-popery?</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ec1fa7d5-6f86-4275-ba36-dbdc080b77b12024-12-09T12:13:11ZWilliam Perkins's anti-popery and its underlying worldview in historical contextThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:ec1fa7d5-6f86-4275-ba36-dbdc080b77b1Human body--Religious aspects--PuritanismReformation--EnglandHistoryEnglishHyrax Deposit2024Beach, EADixon, L<p>Drawing upon a historically situated reading of Perkins’s entire corpus that simultaneously compares select parts of Perkins’s thought to that of his English and continental contemporaries, this dissertation makes three overarching arguments. First, anti-popery served to unify and develop Perkins’s thought. In so doing, this dissertation argues that scholars of anti-popery have frequently focused too narrowly on specific topics or a particular genre of works. Second, Perkins believed that Roman Catholicism promulgated not only a different and dangerous understanding of Christian teaching but also a divergent underlying worldview. When comparing Perkins’s anti-popery to the beliefs of Rome and at times those of the Church of England, Perkins’s anti-popery disproportionately focused on ideas like the family, covenant, and invisible church. Third, contrary to the view that has dominated scholarship from Rosemary Sisson (1952) to W. B. Patterson (2014), Perkins is best understood not as an apologist for the English Church’s doctrine and polity. Instead, Perkins’s anti-popery both energized his reformed ideals of making structural changes to the English Church and, paradoxically, constrained the expression of these same ideals. In so doing, this dissertation explores what Perkins’s anti-popery reveals about his relationship with historiographical categories like moderate puritan, puritan, Calvinist conformist, reformed conformist, and prayer book puritan.</p> <p>Finally, this dissertation aims to answer broader questions like: (1) How did anti-popery function in Perkins’s corpus? (2) What underlying mentalities, assumptions, and intuitions drove Perkins’s anti-popery? and (3) How did Perkins’s broader historical context shape and inform his anti-popery?</p> |
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