This is a study of the 66 bishops of James I. Kenneth Fincham
surveys the range of their activities and functions, including
their part in central politics, their role in local society, their
work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline
and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that
the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal
fortunes at court and in the localities, seen most clearly in the
revival of the court prelate. The Jacobean episcopate as a group
were active pastors, working under the watchful eye of an informed
supreme governor. During these years, the image of the bishop as
preaching pastor won widespread acceptance and evangelical
churchmanship flourished, to be challenged in the second half of
the reign by Arminian prelates. Dr Fincham's analysis of the early
17th-century episcopate, grounded in contemporary sources, reveals
much about the church of James I, the doctrinal divisions of the
period and the origins of Laudian government in the 1630s. "Prelate
as Pastor" offers a new perspective on the controversies of early
Stuart religious history.
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