A letter written to the Bible League Quarterly concerning Richard Cox and John Knox.
Sir: Writers of biography have always to guard themselves against presenting their subject so that he stands in exaggerated contrast to his fellow-beings. Knox, of course, is of great interest to students of the Reformation but in presenting him, John Brentnall has painted some of those around him in too sombre colours. For instance, Knox is mentioned as …
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Cox and Knox
Nov 3
Cox and Knox
Nov 3
A letter written to the Bible League Quarterly concerning Richard Cox and John Knox.
Sir: Writers of biography have always to guard themselves against presenting their subject so that he stands in exaggerated contrast to his fellow-beings. Knox, of course, is of great interest to students of the Reformation but in presenting him, John Brentnall has painted some of those around him in too sombre colours. For instance, Knox is mentioned as …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Reviver of the Reformation in Germany
Ralf Erskine (1685-1752): Revealing Christ’s Beauties
Richard Cox (1499-1581): The Reforming Refugee
Richard Hooker (c. 1554-1600): Coordinator of the Reformed Faith
Richard Mather (1596-1669): Pioneer of American Congregationalism
Risdon Darracott (1717-1759): The Poor Man’s Preacher
Robert Greathead (c. 1175-1253): Defender of Orthodoxy
Robert Hawker (1753-1827): Zion’s Warrior
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and Her Connexion (1707-1791) …
… events, pronounces all the records, whether from the pens of Calvin, Grindal, Ridley, Jewel, Knox, Cox, Whittingham, Samson, or whomsoever, as so manipulated that they are rendered useless. Thus the bulk of the writers during the Marian persecutions and Elizabeathen Settlement can be discarded as representing post-event party trends. Simpson builds on another critical work, Christina Hallowell Garrett’s The Marian Exiles, published in 1938 and reprinted by OUP in 1966, which is also more …
Demythologising History
Nov 9
… of terror, discipline and order hitherto unknown within Reformed churches. Contemporary unionists Richard Sibbes, John Davenport, Samuel Ward, Richard Holdsworth, Philip Nye, John White, Cornelius Burgess, John Durie, Thomas Edwards, Thomas Goodwin, Daniel Featley, Joseph Hall, William Laud, George Abbot, Joseph Mead, Robert Leighton, John Bergius and the bulk of British scientists, educators, poets and writers, besides a majority of German, Dutch, Swiss, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian and …
… were used as a basis for Puritan teaching. Reformers such as Jewel, Lever, Latimer, Coverdale, Cox, Grindal, Bullinger, Bucer and Peter Martyr, pillars of the Church of England, were most strong on doctrine, especially concerning the Word of God and those beliefs commonly called Calvinism. Many of these Reformers were Calvinists before Calvin. They were also almost untouched by secular politics, believing in the separation of Parliament and Church. Many Puritans failed to keep up the …
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Hodge on Regeneration
Hodge’s first essay reviews Samuel H. Cox’s sermon Regeneration and the Manner of Its Occurrence. Cox was one of the milder and less scholarly New Divinity theologians, well-known for his hackneyed phrases and addressing God in public prayer with rather meaningless Latin clichés. Surprisingly Hodge repeatedly emphasises that he agrees with Bellamy, Dwight and Cox on issues where this reviewer would highly disagree because of …
… Elizabeth II to be that church’s Supreme Governor.
At the Elizabethan Settlement, Cox, Sandys, Grindal etc. persuaded Elizabeth I to drop the title of Supreme Head formerly held by her father and half-sister. Instead, she was advised to adopt the title of Supreme Governor of the Realm. This title was later confirmed, not by the Queen herself, nor by Convocation, which was not consulted, but by Parliament who in April, 1559 decreed that Elizabeth was the, “only Supreme …
Contra Knox
Aug 21
… pope’s cohorts? Who would deny the faithful words of evangelical men such as Bale, Whitehead, Cox, Lever, Becon, Sandys, Sampson and Traheron, who say that Knox looked upon the public reading of Scripture and other gospel-grounded forms of worship as ‘irksome and unprofitable’? Does not even Edward Arber, in his Introduction to The Troubles at Frankfort (1907 edition) bemoan the fact that his beloved subject regarded the public reading of God’s Word with disdain and forbade lay …
The debates between the Master of the Temple Church, Richard Hooker and his Deputy Walter Travers between 1585-1586 sparked off controversies which are still unsettled. The original subject matter, however, has been radically altered through changing theological fashions and back-projections of subsequent controversies. The original discussions arose through differences regarding preaching and lecturing, public worship, predestination, …
