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Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558-1626 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558-1626 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the
mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly
disputation between fundamentally opposing and oftentimes
antagonistic Catholic, Protestant and nonconformist puritan
divines. Introducing a form of discourse hitherto neglected in
studies of religious controversy, the volume works to rehabilitate
a body of material only previously examined as part of the great,
subjective mass of polemic produced in the wake of the Reformation.
In so doing, it argues that public religious disputation - debate
between opposing clergymen, arranged according to strict academic
formulae - can offer new insights into contemporary beliefs,
thought processes and conceptions of religious identity, as well as
an accessible and dramatic window into the major theological
controversies of the age. Formal disputation crossed confessional
lines, and here provides an opportunity for a broad, comparative
analysis. More than any other type of interaction or material,
these encounters - and the dialogic accounts they produced -
displayed the shared methods underpinning religious divisions,
allowing Catholic and reformed clergymen to meet on the same field.
The present volume asserts the significance of public religious
disputation (and accounts thereof) in this regard, and explores
their use of formal logic, academic procedure and recorded dialogue
form to bolster religious controversy. In this, it further
demonstrates how we might begin to move from the surviving source
material for these encounters to the events themselves, and how the
disputations then offer a remarkable new glimpse into the
construction, rationalization and expression of post-Reformation
religious argument.
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