James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England
James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199274444 | edition 2007 | PDF | 350 pages | 1.36 mb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199274444 | edition 2007 | PDF | 350 pages | 1.36 mb
Though known today largely for dating the creation of the world to 400BC, James Ussher (1581-1656) was an important scholar and ecclesiastical leader in the seventeenth century. As Professor of Theology at Trinity College Dublin, and Archbishop of Armagh from 1625, he shaped the newly protestant Church of Ireland. Tracing its roots back to St. Patrick, he gave it a sense of Irish identity and provided a theology which was strongly Calvinist and fiercely anti-Catholic. In exile in England in the 1640s he advised both king and parliament, trying to heal the ever-widening rift by devising a compromise over church government. Forced finally to choose sides by the outbreak of civil was in 1642, Ussher opted for the royalists, but found it difficult to combine his loyalty to Charles with his detestation of Catholicism.
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