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The Caroline Divines were influential theologians and writers in the Church of England who lived during the reigns of King Charles I and, after the Stuart Restoration, King Charles II (Latin: Carolus). There is no official list of Caroline-era divines; they are defined by the era in which they lived, and Caroline Divines hailed from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.[1] However, of these four nations, it is Caroline England which is most commonly considered to have fostered a golden age of Anglican scholarship and devotional writing, despite the socio-cultural upset of civil war, regicide, and military rule under Oliver Cromwell. Importantly, the term divine is restricted neither to canonised saints nor to Anglican figures, but is used of many writers and thinkers in the wider Christian church.
^Guyer, Benjamin (2012). The Beauty of Holiness: The Caroline Divines and Their Writings. Norwich (UK): Canterbury Press. pp. 11–14, 26.
The CarolineDivines were influential theologians and writers in the Church of England who lived during the reigns of King Charles I and, after the Stuart...
much used polemically against the group of theologians now known as Carolinedivines. A term with a more accurate focus is Durham House group. Laudianism...
were a group of scholars within the Church of England known as the CarolineDivines, who flourished in the 1600s during the reigns of Charles I and Charles...
England and the associated Church of Ireland were presented by some Anglican divines as comprising a distinct Christian tradition, with theologies, structures...
term high church also came to be associated with the beliefs of the Carolinedivines and with the pietistic emphases of the period, practised by the Little...
Anglicans cite the work of the standard divines, or foundational theologians, of Anglicanism as instructive. Such divines include Cranmer, Richard Hooker, Matthew...
of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth-century CarolineDivines and later provided many members of the Church of England with a theological...
Restoration and beginning of the Carolean era in 1660 under Charles II. CarolineDivines Hirsch, Edward (2014). A Poet's Glossary. p. 93. ISBN 9780547737461...
The Westminster Assembly of Divines was a council of divines (theologians) and members of the English Parliament appointed from 1643 to 1653 to restructure...
England) certainly had no supporters on paper until this year. This group of divines centred around figures such as Lancelot Andrewes, Thomas Dove, John Overall...
and friend of Erasmus, studied at Magdalen College. Several of the CarolineDivines e.g. in particular William Laud as President of St. John's and Chancellor...
regarded as the minimum necessary to maintain the full canonical hours of the Divine Office. Even in houses with adequate numbers, the regular obligations of...
attend church services. Others argued the new regime was illegitimate, since divine right and inheritance meant kings could not be removed, the so-called "state...
catholic entity as the body of Christ, and the sacramental system as the divinely given means of grace. A low churchman now became the equivalent of an evangelical...
Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one...
dyophysite doctrine of Nestorianism, which emphasizes the separateness of the divine and human natures of Jesus, and addresses Mary as Christotokos instead of...
insistence upon promoting the High Church reforms advocated by the CarolineDivines and by Archbishop William Laud, alienated opponents of Anglo-Catholicism...
Prayer (1604) King James Version Caroline period (1625–1649) Arminianism in the Church of England CarolineDivines Laudianism History of the Puritans...
archbishop of Canterbury is referred to as "The Most Reverend Forenames, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan"...
Calvinism, the 17th century brought forth a Golden Age of Anglicanism. The CarolineDivines, such as Andrewes, Laud, Herbert Thorndike, Jeremy Taylor, John Cosin...
Woodruff Shields, Book of the Common Prayer... as amended by Westminster Divines, 1661 (Philadelphia, 1867; new ed., New York, 1880). Daniel Neal, History...
has three sisterhoods and they are found also in Toronto, Saint John the Divine; Brisbane, Sacred Advent. The Year-Book (1911) of the Episcopal Church of...
prayers for the dead, pilgrimage, and the veneration of relics do not mediate divine favour. To believe otherwise would be superstition at best and idolatry...
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