TL;DR: Chaderton's puritanism: his presbyterianism his role in the university the balance of the moderate position 4. Thomas Cartwright: the search for the centre and the threat of separation 5. William Whitaker's position as refracted through his anti-papal polemic as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction: Laurence Chaderton and the problem of puritanism 2. Moderate beginnings: the case of Edward Dering 3. Chaderton's puritanism: his presbyterianism his role in the university the balance of the moderate position 4. The moderate puritan divine as anti-papal polemicist 5. Thomas Cartwright: the search for the centre and the threat of separation 6. William Whitaker's position as refracted through his anti-papal polemic 7. Theory into practice: puritan practical divinity in the 1580s and 1590s 8. William Whitaker at St John's: the puritan scholar as administrator 9. The theological disputes of the 1590s: the opening shots the Lambeth Articles: John Whitgift and Calvinism the case of Peter Baro 10. Conformity: Chaderton's response to the Hampton Court Conference 11. William Bradshaw: moderation in extremity 12. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a major study of the theology of grace in the English Church between the Reformation and the Civil War, arguing that there was essentially a 'Calvinist' consensus in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church, and stresses instead an indigenous latitudinarianism of doctrine against which a concerted campaign was conducted in the last decade of the sixteenth century in the controversies which led to the Lambeth Articles.
Abstract: This is a major study of the theology of grace in the English Church between the Reformation and the Civil War. On the basis of a wide reading of both English and continental writings, the author challenges the prevailing view that there was essentially a 'Calvinist' consensus in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church, and stresses instead an indigenous latitudinarianism of doctrine against which a concerted campaign was conducted in the last decade of the sixteenth century in the controversies which led to the Lambeth Articles. Mr White reviews the impact Arminian ideas had in England, firstly through a detailed exposition of the theology of Arminius, and subsequently by means of a review of the links between the English and Dutch churches as the quarrel between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants reached its climax in the Synod of Dort. Other chapters discuss the place of Hooker in English theology, the impact of Richard Montagu, the ideas of Thomas Jackson, the writings of Neile and Laud on predestination, and the regulation of doctrine in the period of Personal Rule. At all stages the theological debate is related to its political - and often polemical - context, not least in a carefully documented reassessment of the role of the court both in the last years of James' reign and in the early years of the rule of Charles I.
TL;DR: This article argued that a text first printed in English in 1651 must date from about 1610, and that it preserves a first-hand account of previously unsuspected theological discussions, arranged by Archbishop Whitgift in late 1595, that eventuated in the Lambeth Articles.
Abstract: The essay argues that a text first printed in English in 1651 must date from about 1610, and that it preserves a first-hand account of previously unsuspected theological discussions, arranged by Archbishop Whitgift in late 1595, that eventuated in the Lambeth Articles. The doctrinal positions advanced in these discussions – and in the several written responses to the Articles that Whitgift also solicited – clarify the archbishop's handling of this early predestinarian controversy but also complicate in fundamental ways the received picture of the late Elizabethan doctrinal landscape.