Prelate as Pastor

This is a study of the sixty-six bishops who held office during the reign of James I. Kenneth Fincham surveys their range of activities and functions, including their part in central politics, their role in local society, their work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline, and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal fortunes at court and in the localities, seen most clearly in the revival of the court prelate. This detailed analysis of the early seventeenth-century episcopate, intensively grounded in contemporary sources, reveals much about the church of James I, the doctrinal divisions of the period, and the origins of Laudian government in the 1630s. Prelate as Pastor offers a new perspective on the controversies of early Stuart religious history.

ISBN 0198229216   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780198229216 (What's this?)   Pages 378 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 626 Imprint Clarendon Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 30 Aug 1990   Width (mm) 138 Non-book description xvii360   Spine width (mm) 29 Library of Congress BX5176.F56   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 262.12092

List of plates; Abbreviations and symbols; The English and Welsh Episcopate 1603-1625; Introduction; The model and the men; Central politics; Local society; On visitation; Ecclesiastical justice; The clergy; Clerical nonconformity; Churchmanship; Conclusion; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index

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