Ecclesiastical Biography; or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; From the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Vol. IV

by Christopher Wordsworth

Publisher:

F. C. and J. Rivington

, 1810

Overview

Christopher Wordsworth, youngest brother of the romantic poet William Wordsworth, sifted through the archives at the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth with a view to collecting biographical sketches that would inspire Christians to grow in their faith. The fruit of his labor is the six-volume Ecclesiastical Biography; or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution. Through selection and editing, Wordsworth created a “narrative of grand particulars” of carefully chosen biographies, some of them unpublished, of men who represent key events or beliefs in the development of Christianity in Britain during the period between the Reformation and the 1688 Revolution. The stories are meant to give Christians a model of faithfulness in the midst of suffering, a model of the willingness to face adversity for the sake of truth. At the same time, the stories do not hide the faults of the characters, reminding the reader that everyone is capable of sin when they rely on their own strength. Volume four contains biographies of Bishop Jewel, Bernard Gilpin, Richard Hooker, Archbishop Whitgift, John Donne, and George Herbert.

Product Details

• Title: Ecclesiastical Biography; or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; From the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Vol. IV
• Author: Christopher Wordsworth
• Series: Ecclesiastical Biography
• Publisher: F. C. and J. Rivington
• Print Publication Date: 1810
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian biography › Great Britain; Clergy › Great Britain; Great Britain › Church history
• Resource ID: LLS:ECCLESBIOWORDS4
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T18:35:07Z

About Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth (1774–1846) was an English intellectual and Bishop of Lincoln. Wordsworth was born in London, nephew of Romantic poet William Wordsworth and the youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, master of Trinity College. He attended Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a fellow at Trinity in 1830. In 1836, he became public orator at Cambridge and the headmaster of Harrow School. In 1844, he was made a canon of Westminster, and later was archdeacon of Westminster. In 1869, he was appointed Bishop of Lincoln. He wrote several commentaries, histories, memoirs, devotional poems, and hymns.