Reviews for Notes sur les livres liturgiques des diocèses d'Autun, Chalon et Macon

The average rating for Notes sur les livres liturgiques des diocèses d'Autun, Chalon et Macon based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-15 00:00:00 Sa Da A brilliant work of intellectual history--there's a good reason that Lake made a name for himself with this book. His account of the tensions and ambiguities within both the Puritan and conformist camps of the Elizabethan Church, and the way that Richard Hooker set out to redress these weaknesses through a creative (though pretending to be conservative) synthesis is masterful and compelling, even if ultimately Lake overemphasizes Hooker's novelty somewhat (as he himself was later happy to admit). Although I am not a reliable witness, to be sure, and I'm sure have a warped sense of what is readable and of general interest, I would hazard that this book is good enough that normal people (that is, not Ph.D students) might actually enjoy reading it.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-10 00:00:00 Kyle Moore Peter Lake applies his usual thorough analysis of the religious-political strands of thought in the late Elizabethan period. He sets the stage for the rise of the Laudian/high church element in the English church, in the Jacobean period. I would have preferred more discussion of the reason for the political sidelining of the Puritan faction, but I guess that is for a different book. He avoids exhaustive treatment of the Admonition Controversy, leaving that with McGinn. What I found helpful was the in-depth treatment of Richard Hookers' contribution to political thought. Compared to the puritans, Hooker seems so broad-minded, with his proposal of a middle way, between Calvinism and popery. The irony is that Hooker, followed by other anti-Calvinists, would lay the groundwork for the jure divino mentality of the Stuart period, and the ensuing fracturing into civil war.