Book contents
- On Laudianism
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- On Laudianism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Laudianism: Where It Came From
- Part II Laudianism: What It Was
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Chapter 32 Dis-aggregating, or the Pleasures and Benefits of Splitting
- Chapter 33 Of Converts, Collaborators and Apostates
- Chapter 34 Of Converts, Collaborators and Apostates
- Chapter 35 Of Apparatchiks, Zealots and Coming Men
- Chapter 36 The Laudian Avant Garde
- Chapter 37 The Laudian Avant Garde
- Chapter 38 Tacking and Trimming
- Chapter 39 Conclusion to Part V
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 34 - Of Converts, Collaborators and Apostates
Calvinist Conformists, or Humphrey Sydenham and Robert Sanderson Compared
from Part V - Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2023
- On Laudianism
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- On Laudianism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Laudianism: Where It Came From
- Part II Laudianism: What It Was
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Chapter 32 Dis-aggregating, or the Pleasures and Benefits of Splitting
- Chapter 33 Of Converts, Collaborators and Apostates
- Chapter 34 Of Converts, Collaborators and Apostates
- Chapter 35 Of Apparatchiks, Zealots and Coming Men
- Chapter 36 The Laudian Avant Garde
- Chapter 37 The Laudian Avant Garde
- Chapter 38 Tacking and Trimming
- Chapter 39 Conclusion to Part V
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
This chapter looks at fellow-travelling Calvinist conformists, that is to say persons who had always espoused a Calvinist or reformed view of predestination, who, on certain issues and in certain modes, could sound like any moderate puritan, but who, on the issue of conformity, took a firmly anti-puritan line, and consequently on certain other issues could sound just like card-carrying Laudians. It does so through the analysis and comparison of the careers of two such men, Robert Sanderson and Humphrey Sydenham, whose views on the theology of grace, conformity and puritanism, and indeed on some of the signature values of Laudianism, are analysed and compared.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 444 - 475Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023