Synopsis: By Bartholomew's Day, 24 August, 1662, all ministers and
schoolmasters in England and Wales were required by the Act of
Uniformity to have given their "unfeigned assent and consent" to
the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. On theological
grounds nearly two thousand ministers--approximately one fifth of
the clergy of the Church of England--refused to comply and thereby
forfeited their livings. This book has been written to commemorate
the 350th Anniversary of the Great Ejectment. In Part One three
early modern historians provide accounts of the antecedents and
aftermath of the ejectment in England and Wales, while in Part Two
the case is advanced that the negative responses of the ejected
ministers to the legal requirements of the Act of Uniformity were
rooted in positive doctrinal convictions that are of continuing
ecumenical significance. Endorsements: "Notwithstanding the need to
revise judgment on many events in the seventeenth century, the
Great Ejectment of 1662 remains a significant dividing of the ways
in the history of British Christianity, deserving the penetrating
analysis that Alan Sell and his colleagues provide, for what was
designed to secure an Anglican monopoly in national life, in the
event confirmed a large part of the nation in its Nonconformity,
thereby giving birth to Britain's unique form of Christian
pluralism." -John H. Y. Briggs Professor Emeritus, University of
Birmingham Director Emeritus of the Baptist History and Heritage
Centre, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford Author of The
English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (1994) "Broad and deep,
like the Dissenting tradition it surveys, this book is a valuable
compendium of information and a clear-sighted, generous account of
the historical significance of 'Black Bartholomew' for the history
of English and Welsh Protestantism over three hundred and fifty
years." -John Spurr Professor and Head of the College of Arts and
Humanities, Swansea University Author of The Post-Reformation:
Religion, Society, Politics and Britain, 1603-1714 (2006) Editor
Biography: Alan P. F. Sell, a philosopher-theologian and ecumenist,
is employed in research, writing, and lecturing in the United
Kingdom and abroad. He has held academic posts in England, Canada,
and Wales, and ecclesiastical posts in England and Geneva. He is
the author or editor of over thirty books, of which the most recent
are Convinced, Concise and Christian: The Thought of Huw Parri Owen
(Pickwick, 2012) and Christ and Controversy: The Person of Christ
in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience (Pickwick, 2012).
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