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- 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
- Holy Places
- Holy Ordinances
- Holy Times
- Chapter 17 The Feasts and Festivals of the Church, or Putting the Sabbath in Its Place
- Chapter 18 Sunday Sports and the Re/constitution of the Christian Community and the Social Order
- Chapter 19 The Sabbath and the Laudian Attitude to Authority
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 17 - The Feasts and Festivals of the Church, or Putting the Sabbath in Its Place
from Holy Times
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
- Holy Places
- Holy Ordinances
- Holy Times
- Chapter 17 The Feasts and Festivals of the Church, or Putting the Sabbath in Its Place
- Chapter 18 Sunday Sports and the Re/constitution of the Christian Community and the Social Order
- Chapter 19 The Sabbath and the Laudian Attitude to Authority
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
This chapter sets the Laudian view of the Sabbath within their wider account of the feasts and festivals of the church and their account of the church’s capacity to constitute holy times as well as places. The Laudians’ opposition to puritan sabbatarianism is thus explained within their wider position, which enabled them to diminish the significance of the Sabbath attributed by the puritans as the only day marked down for worship by scripture, while simultaneously exalting the role and status of the other holy days denominated by the church, which were thus placed on an at least equal footing with the Sabbath. It was a position adumbrated in conscientious opposition to what was presented as the crude scripturalism and divisive effects of puritan sabbatarianism.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 221 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023