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The Royal Supremacy and Episcopacy ‘Jure Divino’, 1603–1640

open access: yes, 1983
Laudian divines cried up the king's prerogative. But they also affirmed that episcopacy was by divine, not human right. Was jure divino episcopacy, which many clerics asserted in the decades after Bancroft's famous sermon of 1589, in fact incompatible ...
J. P. Sommerville
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Augustine on election: the birth of an article of faith

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2012
The doctrine of divine election is part of the heritage of Western Christianity. Discussions in the reformed tradition point to the older Augustine as the one who developed the doctrine of double predestination in the controversy with the semi-Pelagians.
Erik A. de Boer
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'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French School

open access: yes, 2017
In their drive to ‘sanctify’ the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy.
Forrestal, Alison
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.
In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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The development of the concept of episcopacy in the Church of England from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries

open access: yes, 2013
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Church of England’s understanding of ‘episcopal’ episcopacy and ordained ministry, including their ecclesiological implications and ecumenical consequences.
Weishaupt, Steffen
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A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth‐century Laon

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 518-542, November 2024.
This paper provides the first edition and thorough examination of marginal notes added to a ninth‐century Carolingian manuscript (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 424). A detailed paleographic, codicological, linguistic, and historical analysis of these additions allows us not only to trace their provenance to the early tenth‐century see of Laon but ...
Ildar Garipzanov
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Ano te mahara e reka, how sweet the memory: The changing remembrance of Bishop Jean‐Baptiste François Pompallier in the Twentieth Century*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 55-75, March 2024.
In 2001, Catholic pilgrims, led by Māori priest Henare Tate, travelled to France to exhume the remains of Jean‐Baptiste François Pompallier (1821–1872), the first Catholic Bishop of Aotearoa New Zealand. Placed in a lead‐lined coffin, the remains were taken back to New Zealand and laid to rest in Motuti, Hokianga.
Rowan Light
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Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 53-71, February 2024.
Abstract Both the privy council and elections in early modern Scotland are understudied. The council itself has largely been described as a tool for crown management of elections. But it was fundamentally a court and standing committee charged with government administration, which was often supplicated to deal with cases of electoral impropriety and ...
Robert d. Tree
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Wokół idei stronnictwa katolickiego w Królestwie Polskim

open access: yesKlio, 2013
After 1905 political sympathies amongst Catholics in the Kingdom of Poland were divided between two parties: the National Democracy and the Party of the Realistic Policy (SPR), which was a group with conservative-amicable direction.
Ilona Zaleska
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African hagiography in the mid-3d century as pedagogical text [PDF]

open access: yesHypothekai, 2019
Scholars absolutely agree that special veneration of martyrs in Roman North Africa, in the area of the former possessions of the Carthaginian Empire, was caused by a relatively different — regarding Hellenistic — cultural
Alexey V. Kargaltsev
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