Christopher Highley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533404
- eISBN:
- 9780191714726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533404.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The Epilogue examines the proposed inter-faith union of Prince Charles Stuart and the Spanish Infanta in the early 1620s. While recent interest in the Spanish match has mostly examined Protestant ...
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The Epilogue examines the proposed inter-faith union of Prince Charles Stuart and the Spanish Infanta in the early 1620s. While recent interest in the Spanish match has mostly examined Protestant responses, the Epilogue recovers Catholic representations of an alliance that appeared to offer great benefits to English Romanists. This episode of high dynastic politics again brings into focus key differences between insular Protestant definitions of the nation and more internationalist Catholic views.Less
The Epilogue examines the proposed inter-faith union of Prince Charles Stuart and the Spanish Infanta in the early 1620s. While recent interest in the Spanish match has mostly examined Protestant responses, the Epilogue recovers Catholic representations of an alliance that appeared to offer great benefits to English Romanists. This episode of high dynastic politics again brings into focus key differences between insular Protestant definitions of the nation and more internationalist Catholic views.
Ian Ker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199569106
- eISBN:
- 9780191702044
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199569106.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
John Bowden warned John Henry Newman that “one day” he and theTractswould be “charged with rank Popery”, and suggested that aTractshould be written to refute the accusation. Newman took Bowden's ...
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John Bowden warned John Henry Newman that “one day” he and theTractswould be “charged with rank Popery”, and suggested that aTractshould be written to refute the accusation. Newman took Bowden's “hint” and wrote twoTractson theVia Media. A declaration that the Church of England has taken theVia Mediathat lies between the (so called) Reformers and the Romanists, Popery, and Protestantism. The theory of theVia Mediaseemed very persuasive and plausible but it needed developing to become substantive. TheVia Mediaas a “theory” raised serious objections. However, this does not mean that it is unreal. The reality of a doctrine needed to be tried and tested. It is further argued that Protestantism and Popery are real religions but theVia Media, though viewed as an integral system, never existed except on paper.Less
John Bowden warned John Henry Newman that “one day” he and theTractswould be “charged with rank Popery”, and suggested that aTractshould be written to refute the accusation. Newman took Bowden's “hint” and wrote twoTractson theVia Media. A declaration that the Church of England has taken theVia Mediathat lies between the (so called) Reformers and the Romanists, Popery, and Protestantism. The theory of theVia Mediaseemed very persuasive and plausible but it needed developing to become substantive. TheVia Mediaas a “theory” raised serious objections. However, this does not mean that it is unreal. The reality of a doctrine needed to be tried and tested. It is further argued that Protestantism and Popery are real religions but theVia Media, though viewed as an integral system, never existed except on paper.
Arthur Darby Nock
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748615650
- eISBN:
- 9780748650989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748615650.003.0024
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
The myth of a mythless Rome has had an especially pernicious influence on the discussion of Roman religion, for two reasons. On the one hand, the studies of myth in general, and of myth and religion ...
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The myth of a mythless Rome has had an especially pernicious influence on the discussion of Roman religion, for two reasons. On the one hand, the studies of myth in general, and of myth and religion in particular, have been enormously fruitful areas of research both inside and outside classical studies; but within Classics, Romanists have had to watch with envy as their Hellenist colleagues came to view the religion of Greece as coterminous with its myths and rituals. That view of archaic religion produced a fatal syllogism: religion lies somewhere at the nexus of myth and ritual; Rome had no native myths; therefore Rome had no religion. In no small measure, scholarship in this vein has sustained a fallacy which originated in an ideologically motivated misconstrual: namely, the insistence that ‘rites’ are merely enactments or performances of ‘rituals’.Less
The myth of a mythless Rome has had an especially pernicious influence on the discussion of Roman religion, for two reasons. On the one hand, the studies of myth in general, and of myth and religion in particular, have been enormously fruitful areas of research both inside and outside classical studies; but within Classics, Romanists have had to watch with envy as their Hellenist colleagues came to view the religion of Greece as coterminous with its myths and rituals. That view of archaic religion produced a fatal syllogism: religion lies somewhere at the nexus of myth and ritual; Rome had no native myths; therefore Rome had no religion. In no small measure, scholarship in this vein has sustained a fallacy which originated in an ideologically motivated misconstrual: namely, the insistence that ‘rites’ are merely enactments or performances of ‘rituals’.
