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 4 - Puritan Politics
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 homes in on the explicitly political, and allegedly anti-monarchical, effects of puritan error. Here what Andrewes presents as the integral connections between puritan presumption, hypocrisy and popularity – the latter defined as an obsession with getting and keeping the good opinion of the people, if necessary by defaming their rulers from the pulpit and in the press. Puritanism is thus presented as wholly inimical to monarchical authority in the state and episcopal authority in the church. Again, Andrewes is shown asserting the broad equivalence of the seditious doctrines and practices of the puritans and the papists. He placed special stress on the predestinarian roots of puritan hypocrisy and presumption and hence on the political consequences of what Andrewes took to be (typically puritan) predestinarian error.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 80 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023