Hew their bones in sunder
Eamon Duffy: Lancelot Andrewes, 3 August 2006
Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures
edited by Peter McCullough.
Oxford, 491 pp., £90, November 2005,0 19 818774 2 Show More
edited by Peter McCullough.
Oxford, 491 pp., £90, November 2005,
“... smiling tolerance among his menaces of damnation’. Recent writing on the English Reformation by Peter Lake, Nicholas Tyacke and others has exploded Eliot’s account of Andrewes as the voice of a tranquil via media, a man whose confidence sprang from the settled possession of ‘a formed visible church behind him’. His early religious opinions took shape ... ”