Calvin

• clear & systematic mind at work
• overpowering sense of God's glory
• Plato: we sin out of ignorance. Calvin: we are ignorant because of sin
• not so much Luther's law & Gospel / standing in a continuous covenant from Abraham
• predestination
• obedience to constituted authority

Sacraments

• importance of Martin Bucer as a bridge figure
• insisting on Christ's presence (not a particular understanding)
• the church regulating its own life (discipline)
• normalcy of church/state overlap

Knox & Arminius

• possibility? necessity? to rebel against authority that demands betrayal of faith
• prophets to denounce injustice & call to action (Knox in Scotland)
• Arminians argued that one could refuse grace – in opposition to predestination of Calvinism (cf. p. 194)

Reformation in England

• http://sermons-fr-hathaway.blogspot.com/2017/10/anglican-talkmd.html for a talk I gave at the Oratory last fall
• divorce? leading to separation from Pope's authority
• Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic
• Thomas Cranmer & *Book of Common Prayer
• 39 articles allowing for various readings
• Richard Hooker: "thoughtful & moderate"

From Puritans to Quakers

• Puritan party reacting to the conservative (i.e. not-sufficiently-reformed aspects of Elizabethan/Hooker compromise
• all practice and belief must stem from New Testament
• material success a sign of Grace?
• voice of C of E: William Laud, John Donne, Lancelot Andrewes
• Hooker argued that "tradition" has an important part to play in authority of the Church
• authority reside in Scripture alone? or
• in inner experience? – Society of Friends (Quakers)