GILBERT BISHOP OF SARUM: An Exposition Of The Thirty-Nine Articles Of The Church Of England. 1705

Description and Condition

• Description
• Hardcover / Leather. Full brown leather binding with six ridged spine. Red leather title plate to upper spine. Language: English. Size: 32 cm by 21 cm. Pages: xxiv, 396.
• Book Condition
• Poor
• Detached front board. Heavy wear to corners, edges and spine. Rubbed boards with abrasions and some holes to leather surfaces. Tightly bound text block with lightly toned pages. Light staining and crinkling of page to upper right corner sections.
• Dust Jacket Condition
• No DJ

Notes

• Resume
• The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion are the defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England following the English Reformation. Forming part of the Book of Common Prayer they used by both the Church of England and wider Anglican Communion. When Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church he needed to determine what its doctrines and practices would be in relation to the Roman Catholic Church and the new Protestant movement. A series of defining documents were written and replaced over a period of 30 years as the doctrinal and political situation changed from the excommunication of Henry VIII in 1533, to the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570. These positions began with the Ten Articles in 1536, and concluded with the finalisation of the Thirty-nine articles in 1571. The Thirty-nine articles ultimately served to define the doctrine of the Church of England as it related to Calvinist doctrine and Roman Catholic practice. The articles went through at least five major revisions. 1) The Ten Articles of 1536, which showed light Protestant leanings. 2) The Six Articles in 1539 which swung away from all reformed positions. 3) The King's Book in 1543, which re-established most of the earlier Roman Catholic doctrines. 4) The Forty-two Articles written under the direction of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1552. It was in this document that Calvinist thought reached the zenith of its influence in the English Church. These articles were never put into action, owing to Edward VI's death and the reversion of the English Church to Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII's elder daughter, Mary I. 5) On the coronation of Elizabeth I and the re-establishment of the Church of England as separate from the Roman Catholic Church, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion were initiated by the Convocation of 1563, under the direction of Matthew Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The articles pulled back from some of the more extreme Calvinist thinking and created the distinctive English reformed doctrine. The Thirty-nine Articles were finalised in 1571, and incorporated into the Book of Common Prayer. Although not the end of the struggle between Catholic and Protestant monarchs and citizens, the book helped to standardise the English language.
• Author
• Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) was Bishop of Sarum. Highly respected cleric, preacher, writer and historian.