Book contents
- England’s Second Reformation
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- England’s Second Reformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 An Unresolved Reformation
- Chapter 2 Situating the Laudian Reformation
- Chapter 3 Responses to the Laudian Reformation
- Chapter 4 The Abortive Reformation, 1640–1642
- Chapter 5 The End of Episcopalian Reformation
- Chapter 6 Reformation by Negotiation
- Chapter 7 The Westminster Reformation and the Parliamentarian Church of England
- Chapter 8 The Royalist Church of England, 1642–1649
- Chapter 9 Alternative Reformations, 1649–1653
- Chapter 10 The Cromwellian Church
- Chapter 11 Episcopalian Royalism in the 1650s
- Chapter 12 Failed Reformations, 1659–1661
- Chapter 13 The End of Comprehensive Reformation and the Caroline Settlement
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 5 - The End of Episcopalian Reformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2021
- England’s Second Reformation
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- England’s Second Reformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 An Unresolved Reformation
- Chapter 2 Situating the Laudian Reformation
- Chapter 3 Responses to the Laudian Reformation
- Chapter 4 The Abortive Reformation, 1640–1642
- Chapter 5 The End of Episcopalian Reformation
- Chapter 6 Reformation by Negotiation
- Chapter 7 The Westminster Reformation and the Parliamentarian Church of England
- Chapter 8 The Royalist Church of England, 1642–1649
- Chapter 9 Alternative Reformations, 1649–1653
- Chapter 10 The Cromwellian Church
- Chapter 11 Episcopalian Royalism in the 1650s
- Chapter 12 Failed Reformations, 1659–1661
- Chapter 13 The End of Comprehensive Reformation and the Caroline Settlement
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 analyses the different forces working against the ‘abortive reformation’ discussed in Chapter 4. It begins with the Scottish commissioners, seeing their significance less in propelling a Presbyterian agenda than in their more circumspect undermining of the calls for reduced episcopacy. The chapter then discusses the various parliamentary forces working against episcopacy, along with the role played by more radicalizing religious discourses beyond Parliament’s immediate control. To explain why more marginal ideas were able to gain traction in public discourse about religious change, attention turns to the prestige of anti-Laudian martyrs and the disproportionate public importance of prominent Congregationalists, the format and distribution of the tracts themselves, but also the ways in which the language of religious change was also developing in this period, which opened up areas of ambiguity in which radical solutions could flourish. Here discussion centres on the languages of reformation, anti-Laudianism, apocalypse, eschatology and covenant, with detailed attention to the role played by the 1641 Protestation in particular in polarizing religious opinion. Importance is also attached to the conservative backlash that this radicalization provoked, which undermined conformist support for further reform and empowered more conservative and even Laudian figures.
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- England's Second ReformationThe Battle for the Church of England 1625–1662, pp. 144 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021