| Richard Mocket: Doctrina Et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae: An Anglican Summa. Facsimile, with Variants, of the Text of 1617 Contributor(s): Mocket, Richard (Author), Screech, M. a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004100407 ISBN-13: 9789004100404 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Latin Published: December 1994 Annotation: Warden Richard Mocket's "Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae is a "Summa of Anglican doctrine and organisation compiled by a chaplain of Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. It includes (anonymously) Jewel's "Apologia for the Church of England, Nowell's "Catechism, the thirty-nine Articles (in a controversial Latin version), Mocket's own -- unique -- Latin translation of the Jacobean "Book of Common Prayer, a brief summary of the official Anglican "Homilies and Mocket's treatise "Disciplina et Politia Ecclesia Anglicanae with the variants of his little-known manuscript and the issues of 1616 and 1617 of the printed edition. The whole volume is given in facsimile, the text being that of 1617 (edited). James I condemned the edition to be burnt (1617). It is therefore little known. The introduction (by M.A.Screech) discusses why so important a book was burnt, with the result that it -- as well as this edition of Jewel's "Apologia and Nowell's "Catechism are all but unknown. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Architecture | Interior Design - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 262.034 |
| LCCN: 94040063 |
| Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions |
| Physical Information: 351 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Warden Richard Mocket's Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae is a Summa of Anglican doctrine and organisation compiled by a chaplain of Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. It includes (anonymously) Jewel's Apologia for the Church of England, Nowell's Catechism, the thirty-nine Articles (in a controversial Latin version), Mocket's own -- unique -- Latin translation of the Jacobean Book of Common Prayer, a brief summary of the official Anglican Homilies and Mocket's treatise Disciplina et Politia Ecclesia Anglicanae with the variants of his little-known manuscript and the issues of 1616 and 1617 of the printed edition. The whole volume is given in facsimile, the text being that of 1617 (edited). James I condemned the edition to be burnt (1617). It is therefore little known. The introduction (by M.A.Screech) discusses why so important a book was burnt, with the result that it -- as well as this edition of Jewel's Apologia and Nowell's Catechism are all but unknown. |