Anglican moral theology : the development of a tradition -- Problems of historical definition -- Moral theology from the early church to the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 -- Medieval sources of Anglican moral theology : Abelard and Aquinas -- Nominalism and casuistry in Scotus, Ockham and Mair -- Ethics in the early Reformation : Luther and Tyndale 1518-1536 -- Ethics in the later Reformation : William Perkins -- Richard Hooker and the emergence of 'Anglican' moral theology -- Hooker, Aquinas and revelation -- Caroline moral theology and the Reformed tradition -- Jeremy Taylor and Caroline casuistry
Summary:
In 'The Origins of Anglican Moral Theology' Peter H. Sedgwick shows how Anglican moral theology has a distinctive ethos, drawing on Scripture, Augustine, the medieval theologians (Abelard, Aquinas and Scotus), and the great theologians of the Reformation, such as Luther and Calvin. A series of studies of Tyndale, Perkins, Hooker, Sanderson and Taylor shows the flourishing of this discipline from 1530 to 1670. Anglican moral theology has a coherence which enables it to engage in dialogue with other Christian theological traditions and to present a deeply pastoral but intellectually rigorous theological position. This book is unique because the origins of Anglican Moral Theology have never been studied in depth before.
Series:
Anglican-Episcopal theology and history ; volume 3
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