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
- Holy Places
- Chapter 8 The House of God
- Chapter 9 The House of God and the Beauty of Holiness
- Chapter 10 The Beauty of Holiness and Ceremonial Conformity
- Chapter 11 Church Ceremonies, the Authority of the Church and the Authority of Scripture
- Holy Ordinances
- Holy Times
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 8 - The House of God
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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
- Chapter 8 The House of God
- Chapter 9 The House of God and the Beauty of Holiness
- Chapter 10 The Beauty of Holiness and Ceremonial Conformity
- Chapter 11 Church Ceremonies, the Authority of the Church and the Authority of Scripture
- Holy Ordinances
- Holy Times
- 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 outlines the Laudian view of the church as a physical space and architectural structure and as the house of God and thus as a repository of the divine presence. It follows their sense of that presence throughout the building and finds it centred on the altar. The Laudians traced that vision through salvation history from Abraham’s altar at Bethel, through the Tabernacle and the Temple of the Old Law, and then through the succession of Christian churches since the apostles. Laudian practice was thus based on the successive and overlapping dictates of the natural law, the Mosaic law, the gospel and the practices of the apostles and of church tradition.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 121 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023