The errors of the Puritans

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

7 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/08/2009

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Journalism

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Summary :

Introduction
Scriptures at the heart of the debate between the puritans and the church of England
1. The basis of the debate
2. Hooker and the Puritans' reading of the scripture
3. Hooker comparison to illustrate the idea
Rhetorical work for efficient convincing
1. Form
2. Discrediting the opponents
3. Arguments of authority: An irrefutable way to argue
The evolution of the church
1. Changes in the church
2. Opposition between past and present
Church and politics

Abstract

The document we're going to talk about today is a set of extracts from Richard Hooker's work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity written in 1593 (the 3 dots suggest that they were cuts in the text). Actually, this is his main work and it consists of eight books that were published during the reign of Elizabeth I (she came to the throne in 1558). In 1890, Isaac Walton published The work of Mr Richard Hooker with an account of his life and death, a book in which he gathered Hooker's written works and his biography. This very extract relates the debate opposing the Puritan wing of the Church of England and the partisans of the Church of England in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I. You all remember that Elizabeth was a protestant: she reformed the English Church, setting up a Via Media which is a middle way between the positions of the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.