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
- Chapter 1 A Trinitarian and Incarnational Theology
- Chapter 2 Andrewes’ Political Theology
- Chapter 3 Andrewes’ Anti-Puritanism
- Chapter 4 Puritan Politics
- Chapter 5 The Tree of Repentance and Its Fruits
- Chapter 6 Absent Presences
- Chapter 7 The Visible Church and Its Ordinances
- 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
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 7 - The Visible Church and Its Ordinances
from Part I - Laudianism: Where It Came From
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
- Chapter 1 A Trinitarian and Incarnational Theology
- Chapter 2 Andrewes’ Political Theology
- Chapter 3 Andrewes’ Anti-Puritanism
- Chapter 4 Puritan Politics
- Chapter 5 The Tree of Repentance and Its Fruits
- Chapter 6 Absent Presences
- Chapter 7 The Visible Church and Its Ordinances
- 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
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyses Andrewes’ account of the central ordinances of divine worship – preaching, prayer, the sacrament and the right conduct of the public worship of God. It argues that Andrewes produced a significant re-evaluation of the roles of those ordinances and practices in the life of the church and of the life of faith; one which downplayed the role of the word preached, and played up those of public prayer and, in particular, of the sacrament. For Andrewes, it was the sacrament that was at the centre of both corporate worship and the devotional life of the Christian; a view founded on his deeply incarnational and Trinitarian theology. As for the reverent conduct of divine worship, that was a natural, indeed a necessary, corollary of the divine presence in the church and the sacrament. All of which was presented as in stark contrast to, and indeed in reaction against, what Andrewes presented as the characteristic religious values and practices of the puritans.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 101 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023