Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae: An Anglican Summa (Studies in the History of Christian Thought): An Anglican Summa. Facsimile, with ... in the History of Christian Traditions) - Hardcover

Mocket, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004100407 ISBN 13: 9789004100404

Publisher: Brill, 1994

Synopsis

Warden Mocket's Summa of Anglican doctrine was condemned to be burnt (1617) by James I of England and VI of Scotland. It contains his text with variants of the virtually unknown manuscript of the warden's own treatise and the variants of the issues of 1616 and 1617. It also has his unique translation of the Jacobean Book of Common Prayer and works by Jewel and Nowell.

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Review:

'...is detailed and informed...a careful overview...'
Egil Grislis, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1997.

Synopsis:

Warden Richard Mocket's "Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae" is an anonymous "Summa" of Anglican doctrine and organization compiled by a chaplain of Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. It includes (anonymously) Jewel's "Apologia" for the Church of England, Nowell's "Catechism", the 39 Articles (in a Latin version), Mocket's own Latin translation of the Jacobean "Book of Common Prayer", a brief summary of the official Anglican "Homilies" and Mocket's treatise "Disciplina et Politia Ecclesia Anglicanae" with the variants of his little-known manuscript and the issues of 1616 and 1617 of the printed edition. The whole volume is given in facsimile, the text being that of 1617 (edited). James I condemned the edition to be burnt (1617) and it is therefore little known. The introduction discusses why so important a book was burnt, with the result that it - as well as this edition of Jewel's "Apologia" and Nowell's "Catechism" - are all but unknown.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 9004100407
• ISBN 13: 9789004100404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351
• Editor: Screech M A