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Suspicious Moderate: The Life and Writings of Francis À Sancta Clara (1598-1680)

Suspicious Moderate: The Life and Writings of Francis À Sancta Clara (1598-1680)

Davenport, Anne Ashley
Peters, Danielle M.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismCatholicism

ISBN10: 0268100977
ISBN13: 9780268100971
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 684
Weight: 2.58
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual biography of the influential English Catholic theologian Francis à Sancta Clara (1598-1680). Born into a Protestant family in Coventry at the end of the sixteenth century, Sancta Clara joined the Franciscan order in 1617. He played key roles in reviving the English Franciscan province and in the efforts that were sponsored by Charles I to reunite the Church of England with Rome. In his voluminous Latin writings, he defended moderate Anglican doctrines, championed the separation of church and state, and called for state protection of freedom of conscience.

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