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I. A Space Mediated by Reason: Richard Hooker and William Chillingworth I. A Space Mediated by Reason: Richard Hooker and William Chillingworth
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II. Jeremy Taylor, Textual Scholarship, and the Resources of the Antiscripturists II. Jeremy Taylor, Textual Scholarship, and the Resources of the Antiscripturists
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III. Restoration Coda: Edward Stillingfleet and ‘rational Infallibility’ III. Restoration Coda: Edward Stillingfleet and ‘rational Infallibility’
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Further Reading Further Reading
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15 Self-Defeating Scholarship? Antiscripturism and Anglican Apologetics from Hooker to the Latitudinarians
Get accessNicholas McDowell is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630–1660 (2003) and Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (2008), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Milton (2009) and The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume VI: Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings (2013). He is currently completing a study of the reception and translation of Rabelais in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and editing, with Henry Power, The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640–1714.
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Published:12 November 2015
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Abstract
This chapter explores the ideas of biblical ‘orthodoxy’ and scepticism in Anglican and radical ideas on how the Bible was to be understood. It considers the early modern understanding of the difference between the ‘ordinary’ illumination of reason, and the special illumination of revelation and the role of clerical authority in mediating between these. It moves from the arguments directed at puritan biblicism by Richard Hooker to the mid-seventeenth century reaction to radical religious speculation by Laudian intellectuals, such as Jeremy Taylor, who sought explicitly to question the status of the biblical texts as the infallible Word of God, through sophisticated textual criticism and the application of historicist methods. The chapter argues that there was considerable overlap between latitudinarian scholarship and radical, deist arguments about the Bible and seeks to illuminate the role of ‘heterodox’ modes of biblical criticism in shaping the ‘orthodox’ tradition of the Church of England.
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