A Calvinist Confession? Interpreting the Thirty-Nine Articles and Writing the History of the Reformation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

In eighteenth-century Ireland, there were two competing historiographical traditions, fighting to tell their story of the Church of Ireland’s doctrinal heritage, as outlined in its confession, the Thirty-Nine Articles, which were formulated in the sixteenth-century Church of England. Article XVII: O...

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Main Author: Lewis, Simon 1990- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2023
In: The journal of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 103, Issue: 3, Pages: 338-364
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