Edward Reynolds: “Pride Of The Presbyterian Party” in Seventeenth-Century England: A Calvinist In Anglican Clothing

by H. Newton Malony

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, March 2021

Overview

This is the biography of Edward Reynolds (1599-1676), a Presbyterian clergyman in the Church of England in the seventeenth century. He distinguished himself as a popular preacher who participated in the struggle to redefine the national church during the century after Henry VIII withdrew England from Roman Catholicism. He represented the attempt to have Calvinistic preaching and church order represented as legitimate options over against Anglo Catholic ritualism in the new church. He did not succeed, but was appointed Bishop of Norwich, where he functioned as a moderate voice within the church. He was known as the Pride of the Presbyterians, and was the author of a Treatise on the Passions of the Soul of Man and a number of volumes of sermons delivered to many leaders of the nation. He was a central figure in the development of the Westminster Confession of Faith and selected prayers within the Book of Common Prayer.

Key Features

• Presents the biography in a dynamic manner
• Follows the life of Edward Reynolds in a chronological order
• Seeks to portray de life of Edward Reynolds as he became involved with the presbyterian church

Contents

• Reynolds: Student at Merton College, Oxford
• Reynolds Is Ordained and Gets Married
• Reynolds Writes a Book
• Charles Becomes King; Laud Becomes Archbishop
• Reynolds as Evangelical Preacher
• Reynolds at the Westminster Assembly of Divines
• The Remonstrance and the Execution of Charles I
• Reynolds Returns to Oxford as Reformer
• Reynolds and the Commonwealth
• Reynolds as Reconciler in the Midst of Chaos
• Reynolds and the Restoration of the Monarch
• Reynolds and the New King
• Reynolds Appointed the Bishop of Norwich
• Norwich's Bishop, Pride of the Presbyterians: A Calvinist in Anglican Clothing

Praise for Edward Reynolds

This book has enlarged my understanding of a particular ecclesiastical leader, Edward Reynolds, in a particularly pivotal point in English history (most of the seventeenth century), where theological and political forces were hard at work. From humble beginnings, and ostensibly hopeless prospects, young Reynolds was on a trajectory that would lead him to be master of academia, wise and admired theologian, arbiter of church-state politics, and pastor-priest-bishop beyond reproach. I read this fast-paced and fascinating biography with anticipation, filling in details to my own Presbyterian/Reformed theology studies.

—Pamela Nelson-Munson, Ashland, Oregon

Product Details

• Title: Edward Reynolds: “Pride Of The Presbyterian Party” in Seventeenth-Century England: A Calvinist In Anglican Clothing
• Author: H. Newton Malony
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: March 2021
• Pages: 94
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Resource ID: LLS:EDWARDREYNOLDS17TH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2021-06-17T19:36:06Z