By Joshua Rodda
With a spotlight on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this booklet examines the perform of direct, scholarly disputation among essentially opposing and in many instances hostile Catholic, Protestant and nonconformist puritan divines. Introducing a kind of discourse hitherto ignored in reviews of non secular controversy, the quantity works to rehabilitate a physique of fabric simply formerly tested as a part of the nice, subjective mass of polemic produced within the wake of the Reformation. In so doing, it argues that public non secular disputation – debate among opposing monks, prepared in keeping with strict educational formulae – can supply new insights into modern ideals, inspiration techniques and conceptions of spiritual id, in addition to an available and dramatic window into the foremost theological controversies of the age. Formal disputation crossed confessional strains, and right here presents a chance for a wide, comparative research. greater than the other kind of interplay or fabric, those encounters – and the dialogic debts they produced – displayed the shared equipment underpinning spiritual divisions, permitting Catholic and reformed monks to satisfy at the similar box. the current quantity asserts the importance of public spiritual disputation (and money owed thereof) during this regard, and explores their use of formal common sense, educational approach and recorded discussion shape to strengthen spiritual controversy. during this, it additional demonstrates how we would start to stream from the surviving resource fabric for those encounters to the occasions themselves, and the way the disputations then provide a impressive new glimpse into the development, clarification and expression of post-Reformation non secular argument.
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But, as we have already seen in their invocations of disputation, Protestants in particular came to value, if not idealize, confrontation. 90 For puritans, a greater effect was produced by the notion of the godly minority, tested by those around them. For all sides, the universities’ discursive climate and persistent Aristotelianism perpetuated the arguments produced – the shared understanding that no opposing work should go unanswered was drawn from the evidentiary and logical requirements of disputation.
Here, events have been selected and categorized, for the most part, by their proximity to the academic form. ‘Disputations, or publike meetinges and conferences’ On its own, however, this can never be sufficient. Shuger’s ‘mask’ of academic context has already set a boundary between disputation as performed in the universities and disputation between graduate clergymen, held in prisons and private houses, and this relationship will be explored below. But we must also be careful that close adherence to the formal structure does not lead us to omit too much that might prove useful.
60. , pp. 41, 63. 117 Ibid. pp. 43–4; Featley, Romish Fisher, sig. Mmv. 118 William Charke, An Answere to a Seditious Pamphlet lately Cast Abroade by a Jesuite (1580), sig. iiiir; Meredith Hanmer, The Great Bragge and Challenge of M. Champion a Jesuite (1581), fols 19v–20r; McCoog, ‘“Playing the Champion”’, p. 130; James V. Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge: Edmund Campion’s Debates at the Tower of London in 1581 (New York, 1999), p. 180. 119 Lake, Moderate Puritans, pp. 94–5; see Morgan, Godly Learning, pp.
