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Caroline Casuistry (Catholic Record Society: Records Series)
Peter Holmes (Ed.)
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Description for Caroline Casuistry (Catholic Record Society: Records Series)
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Edition of theological debates and discussions, giving an intriguing and unusual insight into the English catholic community in the seventeenth century. How did English Catholics come to terms with living in an alien state? Could they, for example, practise equivocation to avoid arrest, possible imprisonment and execution? Could they use force against their captors? What contact could they maintain with Protestants in order to survive and carry on a normal life? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience, was an important aspect of the education ... Read more
Edition of theological debates and discussions, giving an intriguing and unusual insight into the English catholic community in the seventeenth century. How did English Catholics come to terms with living in an alien state? Could they, for example, practise equivocation to avoid arrest, possible imprisonment and execution? Could they use force against their captors? What contact could they maintain with Protestants in order to survive and carry on a normal life? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience, was an important aspect of the education ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Catholic Record Society
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780902832275
SKU
V9780902832275
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-38
Reviews for Caroline Casuistry (Catholic Record Society: Records Series)
A rich resource not only for historians of Reformation England, but for scholars in both moral theology and canon law as well.
RECUSANT HISTORY
A valuable resource for study of Caroline Catholicism.
PARERGON
Offers fascinating insights into the lives of English Catholics, and more generally into early Stuart religious and social history. ... This book makes ... Read more
RECUSANT HISTORY
A valuable resource for study of Caroline Catholicism.
PARERGON
Offers fascinating insights into the lives of English Catholics, and more generally into early Stuart religious and social history. ... This book makes ... Read more