Visible and Apostolic, Second Edition
The Constitution of the Church in High Church Anglican and Nonjuror Thought 1688–1745
- History & Biography
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
Robert Cornwall’s revision of Visible and Apostolic, which brings the original book up to date, demonstrates how High Church Anglican and Nonjuror ecclesiology underlay many important controversies that faced church and state during the period 1688 to 1745, a period that ran from the Glorious Revolution to the final Jacobite rebellion in 1745. High Churchmen and Nonjurors—the latter being High Churchmen deprived of their positions because they refused to renounce allegiance to James II and take the oaths to William and Mary—attempted to defend the integrity of the true church in England, a church they believed was visible, episcopal, sacramental, and apostolic. In support of their efforts, these High Churchmen, who sought to turn back threats from Deism, Latitudinarianism, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Nonconformity, made use of the threefold cord of authority: Scripture, tradition, and reason. Important controversies addressed include attempts at the comprehension of Dissenters into the established church, the Convocation and Bangorian Controversies, as well as debates over the Toleration Act, the practice of occasional conformity, and lay baptism. This edition also explores more deeply than the first edition, the Usages Controversy that divided the later Nonjurors.
Endorsements (3)
“For a generation of students, Robert Cornwall’s Visible and Apostolic provided a sturdy and engaging introduction to the sacramental and ecclesiological thought of the Anglican high church movement in the half-century following the Glorious Revolution. It is perhaps no accident that the decades since its first appearance in 1993 have seen a veritable renaissance of scholarship on the ecclesiastical history and politics of the post-revolution era. A substantially revised new edition of Cornwall’s book, which incorporates much of the new scholarship that followed in the wake of the original, is most welcome indeed.”
“Robert D. Cornwall’s happily reissued and revised book comprehensively affirms the richness of the high church and nonjuring traditions within Anglicanism between the Revolution of 1688 and the mid-eighteenth century. He rightly insists that the nonjuror movement may have had a Jacobite dimension but, no less importantly, that it had firm theological foundations that would not compromise the church’s spiritual integrity. Scholars and students will be gratified to have Cornwall’s assessment of this enduring belief system once more readily available.”
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