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Arminianism , the English Civil War, and Historiography

Arminianism , the English Civil War, and Historiography. Jesse McCarthy. English Civil War. Church of England. Monarch supreme governor of the Church of England Elizabethan Religious Settlement James I vs. Charles I Catholic and Reformed Adiaphora Nonconformity . English Calvinism.

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Arminianism , the English Civil War, and Historiography

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  1. Arminianism, the English Civil War, and Historiography Jesse McCarthy

  2. English Civil War

  3. Church of England • Monarch supreme governor of the Church of England • Elizabethan Religious Settlement • James I vs. Charles I • Catholic and Reformed • Adiaphora • Nonconformity

  4. English Calvinism English Arminianism Absolute and Double Predestination Preaching/word centered liturgy Relatively tolerant of nonconformity Connected to continental Reformed/Calvinist tradition Conditional Predestination Sacrament centered liturgy Very intolerant of nonconformity Reliant on monarchy Redefinition of Puritanism

  5. A Plea to An Appeale(1626) Ibis ad Caesarem(1626)

  6. A New Gagg (1624) AppelloCaesarem(1625)

  7. War of Words • Arminian • Pelagian • Semi-Pelagian • PontificianArminian • Lutheran • pseudo-Lutheran • Montagutian • Roman Catholic • Papist • Arian

  8. Politics • Acrimonious religious conflict • Arminianism major issue in English Parliament 1624-1629 and 1640 until execution of Charles I and William Laud • Massive religious unrest in Scotland and political unrest in Ireland • Arminianism becomes inextricably linked to monarchy

  9. Charles I r. (1625 – 1649) • Stubborn and Pigheaded • Support of Arminianism • Continued conflict with Parliament • Extraparliamentary rule • Personal rule • Taxation • George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628)

  10. Francis Rous (1579-1659)

  11. Richard Montague (1577-1641)

  12. Historiography • What was the English Civil War • Why did it happen? • What role did religion play? • What role did politics play?

  13. Whig • S.R. Gardiner, H.M. Treveylan • British constitutional parliamentary democracy • History follows a predetermined path • Progress • English Civil War • Grasping despotic kings vs. heroic Parliamentarian champions of liberty • Puritan Revolution vs. Conservative Church

  14. Marxist • Christopher Hill • Class struggle • Progress • English Civil War • Bourgeois revolution • Puritan revolution vs. Conservative Church

  15. Revisionist • Nicholas Tyacke, Conrad Russell, Sears McGee • Contingency • Most important causes lie in the years immediately preceding the • English Civil War not inevitable • Long term problems of English body politic • Charles I • Insurgent English Arminianism vs. Calvinist Establishment

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