Herbert Thorndike and the Restoration of the Church of England /
The Caroline theologian Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) was significant before and after the seventeenth-century Restoration of the Church of England. Thorndike's theological methodology engaged with ecclesiology, the government and ministry of the Church of England, the Eucharist and the Book of...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History ;
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Call Number: D410
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Referencing of Thorndike's Work in This Book
- Abbreviations Used in This Book for Referencing Thorndike's Works
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Starting at the End of Thorndike's Life: His Burial Place
- 1.2 Restoration of the Church of England?
- 1.3 Thorndike's Theological Works
- 1.4 Scholarship on Thorndike
- 1.5 Antiquity and the Present
- 1.6 The Method of This Book
- 1.7 The Plan of This Book
- 2 Who Was Herbert Thorndike?
- 2.1 Thorndike's Early Life
- 2.2 University of Cambridge
- 2.3 A Time of Deprivation
- 2.4 Restoration of the Church of England
- 2.5 Westminster Abbey
- 2.6 Thorndike's Final Days
- 2.7 Thorndike the Man
- 3 Thorndike's Terminology of the Eucharist
- 3.1 Eucharist or Thanksgiving
- 3.2 Eucharist as a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving
- 3.3 Eucharist as Covenant
- 3.4 The Supper of the Lord, the Sacrament of the Supper and the Breaking of the Bread
- 3.5 Sacramentum
- 3.6 The Mass
- 3.7 Communion
- 3.8 Liturgy
- 4 Scripture, Reason and Tradition in Thorndike's Works
- 4.1 Richard Hooker and Herbert Thorndike
- 4.2 Richard Hooker, His Laws and Thorndike
- 4.3 Thorndike and Scripture
- 4.4 Thorndike and Reason
- 4.5 Thorndike and Tradition
- 5 The Elements and the Body and Blood of Christ
- 5.1 The Elements Central to Consecration
- 5.2 The Natural Substances of the Elements Remain after Consecration
- 5.3 Change in the Elements by Consecration
- 5.4 The Worship of Christ in the Signs Is Not Idolatry
- 5.5 Thorndike Rejects Transubstantiation, Memorialism, Calvinism and Consubstantiation
- 6 Eucharistic Sacrifice
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 In What Sense Does Thorndike See the Eucharist as a Sacrifice?
- 6.3 The Eucharist as a Sacrifice or Oblation Propitiatory and Impetratory
- 6.4 The Eucharist as the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross
- 6.5 The Eucharist as a Living Sacrifice of the Self
- 6.6 The Breaking, Pouring, Distributing and Eating are in the Nature of a Sacrifice
- 6.7 Consent of the Catholic Church to the Propitiatory Sacrifice in the Eucharist
- 7 The Power of the Church in a Restored Church of England
- 7.1 Bishops and Presbyters/Priests and the Power of the Keys
- 7.2 The Power of the Church to Refuse Communion
- 7.3 The Power of the Church to Determine the Frequency of the Eucharistic Celebration
- 8 The Eucharist and the Book of Common Prayer in the Restored Church of England
- 8.1 Thorndike Prefers the Book of Common Prayer of 1549
- 8.2 The Forgiveness of Sins and the Placement of the Absolution in the BCP
- 8.3 The BCP Expresses Thanksgiving for and Blessing of God's Creation and Creatures
- 8.4 The Elements are Not for Receiving Alone
- 8.5 The Eucharist in the BCP Is Properly Called the Liturgy
- 8.6 The Eucharist in the BCP Is Intended to be Celebrated Regularly
- 8.7 Liturgical Revision of the BCP Suggested by Thorndike
- 8.8 The Eucharist as the Place for Instruction of the People
- 8.9 Thorndike Opposes the Use of the Decalogue in the Eucharist
- 8.10 Revision of the Prayer of Consecration to Make a More Expanded Thanksgiving with a Statement of Oblation
- 8.11 Thorndike Prefers a Set Form of Intercession Rather Than Free Prayer
- 8.12 The Memorial of the Dead in the Eucharist
- 8.13 The BCP More Than an Equivocation of Words
- 9 Early Interpreters of Thorndike and His Theological Methodology
- 9.1 Hamon L'Estrange (1605-1660)
- 9.2 Henry More (1614-1687)
- 9.3 William Falkner (d. 1682)
- 9.4 George Hickes (1642-1715)
- 9.5 Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
- 9.6 The Nonjurors
- 9.7 Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
- 10 Nineteenth Century Interpreters of Thorndike and his Theological Methodology
- 10.1 Edward Pusey (1800-1882)
- 10.2 John Keble (1792-1866)
- 10.3 John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
- 10.4 William Goode (1801-1868)
- 11 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Interpreters of Thorndike and His Theological Methodology
- 11.1 Thomas Lacey
- 11.2 George Addleshaw (1906-1982)
- 11.3 Clifford Dugmore (1909-1990)
- 11.4 Richard F. Buxton
- 11.5 Henry McAdoo (1916-1998) and Kenneth Stevenson (1949-2011)
- 11.6 Bryan Spinks
- 11.7 Paul Avis
- 11.8 Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke
- 11.9 David J. Kennedy
- 11.10 Mark Langham (1960-2021)
- 11.11 Jean-Louis Quantin
- 11.12 Conclusion: Thorndike and Interpreters
- 12 Evaluating Thorndike and His Theological Methodology
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Thorndike, Toleration and Exclusive Attitudes
- 12.3 Antiquity, the Fathers and the Caroline Divines in the Anglican Tradition
- 12.4 Antiquity and the Present: Thorndike's Methodology
- 12.5 Thorndike and Truth as Incarnation and Eucharistic Repetition
- 12.6 Thorndike and Modern Liturgical Revision
- 12.7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.