The Church of Ireland and its Past
History, interpretation and identity
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The Church of Ireland and its Past
History, interpretation and identity
About this book
This book brings together leading Irish historians who examine how the history of the Church of Ireland has been written in the 500 years since the Reformation. It traces the emergence of a distinctly Protestant narrative, shaped by the belief that the Church of Ireland was the true descendant of St Patrick, and shows how this endured down to the twentieth century, before being challenged by the development of a more secular and professional approach to the writing of history. Contributors: Alan Ford (U Nottingham), Mark Empey (NUIG), Toby Barnard (formerly Hertford College, U Oxford), Sean Farrell (Northern Illinois U), Jamie Blake Knox (TCD), Daibhi O Croinin (NUIG), Tom O'Loughlin (U Nottingham), James Golden (formerly Hertford College, U Oxford), Ruairi Cullen (QUB), Miriam Moffitt (SPCM), Ian D'Alton (Sidney Sussex College, U Cambridge), James Murray (Technological Higher Education Association), Nicholas Canny (NUIG), Karl Bottigheimer (SUNY), Steven Ellis (NUIG), David Hayton (QUB). [Subject: Church of Ireland, Protestantism, Reformation, St. Patrick, Irish Studies, History, Religious Studies]
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- ‘That noble dream’: objectivity and the writing of Irish church history
- Shaping history: James Ussher and the Church of Ireland
- Creating a usable past: James and Robert Ware
- Writing the history of the Church of Ireland in the eighteenth century
- High-church history: C.R. Elrington and his edition of James Ussher’s works
- Contested histories? Richard Mant’s History of the Church of Irelandand religious politics in early Victorian Belfast
- J.H. Todd and the Life of St Patrick
- Bishop William Reeves, Adomnán, and the beginning of historical theology in Ireland
- Irishness, foreignness and national identity: apostolic succession in disestablishment historiography
- George T. Stokes and the oriental origins of Irish Christianity in the late nineteenth century
- W.A. Phillips, History of the Church of Ireland (1933–4): a missed opportunity
- Journeying into a wider world? The development of the histories of the Church of Ireland since 1950
- The debate about the Irish Reformation: some reflections on twentieth-century historiography
- After Bradshaw: the debate on the Tudor Reformation in Ireland
- One church, two histories: the Jacobean and the Caroline traditionsin the Church of Ireland, 1600–2000
- Concluding reflections
- Index