Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650 Maddicott John
Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650 Maddicott John Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter…
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Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650 Maddicott John
Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. But Prideaux was also an outstandingly successful head of his Oxford college and made it a home for foreign scholars and students. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard' in the Church of England - Calvinist believers in the doctrines of grace and predestination, who set themselves against the growing power of the Arminian modernisers within the Church, largely the followers of Archbishop Laud.
In this study, John Maddicott addresses at length both with Prideaux's political and Devoted to teaching, the writers of numerous books for undergraduates and theology students, and thoroughly involved in his College's everyday affairs, he was a model rector.
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