John Lightfoot's journals of the Westminster assembly
What has by convention been called 'John Lightfoot's journal' is in fact a four-volume series of journals, the first of which has never been published. The journals are presented here in their entirety for the first time. John Lightfoot's journals cover a period in the author...
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2023
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Lightfoot, John
> Church of England
> History
> Westminster Assembly
> 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.)
> 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.)
> c 1500 to c 1600
> c 1600 to c 1700
> Theology, Doctrinal
> Christentum
> Christianity
> Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
> European history
> Europäische Geschichte
> Geschichte der Religion
> HISTORY / Europe / General
> HISTORY / Social History
> History of religion
> RELIGION / Christianity / General
> RELIGION / Christianity / History
> Social & cultural history
> Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
> Tagebuch
> Anglikanische Kirche
> Westminstersynode
> Staat
> Kirche
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| Zusammenfassung: | What has by convention been called 'John Lightfoot's journal' is in fact a four-volume series of journals, the first of which has never been published. The journals are presented here in their entirety for the first time. John Lightfoot's journals cover a period in the author's life when he was a member of the famous 'assembly of divines' meeting in Westminster Abbey. The Westminster assembly (1643-1653) was comprised of approximately thirty members of parliament and 120 ministers. By the outbreak of the war in England in 1642, a majority in the Long Parliament had come to see it as its duty to renovate the Church of England, both bringing it into line with a more biblical code and up to date with the bestReformed Churches. Lightfoot's personal diary is of critical importance to assembly history because his meticulous little volumes supply the only account of the assembly's activities for sessions 1-44, and the only fulsome account for sessions 120-154, where the assembly's own minutes are missing. For the sessions where the assembly's minutes are extant, Lightfoot offers another set of eyes, often supplying additional information and a perspective differing from the assembly's own scribe. These sessions recordthe gathering's opening ceremonies, surprising fractious debates over the Thirty-nine Articles, and predictably heated conflicts between Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists over church governance. Lightfoot describes riots outside parliament, names meeting places for MPs and assemblymembers in London, and attempts to explain assembly dynamics in a way that The Minutes and Papers of the assembly do not. The four-volume journal ends abruptly after eighteen months, in December 1644.The body of this volume contains the full text of Lightfoot's surviving journals, accompanied by interpretive introductions for each session and editorial notation throughout. The introduction sets in context the author's life prior to and during the Westminster assembly and discusses the careful composition, potential audience, and checkered transmission of the journals "What has by convention been called 'John Lightfoot's journal' is in fact a four-volume series of journals, the first of which has never been published. The journals are presented here in their entirety for the first time. John Lightfoot's journals cover a period in the author's life when he was a member of the famous 'assembly of divines' meeting in Westminster Abbey. The Westminster assembly (1643-53) was comprised of approximately thirty members of parliament and 120 ministers. By the outbreak of the war in England in 1642, a majority in the Long Parliament had come to see it as its duty to renovate the Church of England, both bringing it into line with a more biblical code and up to date with the best Reformed Churches. Aspects of this transformation (chiefly the work of demolition) the Lords and Commons were willing to direct themselves. But while ready to dismantle aspects of church life and ministry, neither house of parliament was eager to create a new design for the church. It is for that reason that the Long Parliament formed their 'assembly of divines', a kind of ecclesiastical architectural service to which it could contract the task of planning a remodelled church. Narratives of the assembly's history were already in progress while the gathering was still meeting and were advanced in the years following. Members of the assembly allowed themselves to speculate about the legacy that the gathering might one day enjoy and were attentive to the way in which their own contributions were recorded by the synod's scribes. The scribe himself polished rough drafts of his minutes, and Robert Baillie, one of the Scottish Commissioners who later joined the body, mentioned to a friend that he recorded 'all these our debates, private and publick' and added that 'most of all the Assemblie wrytes', likening it to people taking notes of preached sermons. Baillie's comment indicates that there were other Lightfoots-perhaps many divines who wrote their own accounts of the assembly's proceedings. His colleague, George Gillespie, recorded his own version of some of the debates; Thomas Thorowgood, Thomas Goodwin, and John Wallis did as well. Quite possibly other such journals have survived and will yet be uncovered. But the point is that any number of participants created their own accounts of those years in the assembly, each for a readership and a purpose beyond the assembly itself. Centuries later surviving documentation of the synod's sessions is painfully uneven. Lightfoot's own journals exemplify this uneven coverage of events, for his daily notes span only the period from July 1643 to December 1644, even though he continued to play an active part in the gathering's work into the 1650s. The body of this volume contains the full text of the surviving journals, accompanied by interpretive introductions for each session and editorial notation throughout. This brief introduction sets in context the author's life prior to and during the Westminster assembly and suggests that a study of these journals will lead to a revision of traditional characterizations of Lightfoot as a clergyman of the church of England uninterested in reform. It also summarizes important ways in which the journals supplement other accounts of the Westminster assembly's work before discussing the careful composition, potential audience, and chequered transmission of the journals"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xiv, 592 Seiten 1 Porträt 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198835516 978-0-19-883551-6 0198835515 0-19-883551-5 |