Author: CARTER, T.T. (EDITOR).
Title: The Life and Times of John Kettlewell with Details of the History of the Nonjurors.
Description: London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1895. 1st edition. Pp.xxiv/273, black & white portrait frontispiece, toning to inner endpapers. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed. Scarce. G+. **John Kettlewell (1653–1695) was an English clergyman, nonjuror and devotional writer. He is now known for his arguments against William Sherlock, who had justified the change of monarch of 1688-9 and his own switch of sides in The Case of the Allegiance. According to J. P. Kenyon, Kettlewell's reply made a case "with which conformist Anglicans could only agree, because it was spiritual, while Sherlock's was resolutely aspiritual". He went on to attack defenders of the Glorious Revolution generally as proponents of fallacious contractarian theories."(wiki)** "The nonjuring schism was a split in the Anglican churches of England, Scotland and Ireland in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, over whether William III and Mary II could legally be recognised as sovereigns. The word "nonjuring" means "not swearing [an oath]", from the Latin word iuro or juro meaning "to swear an oath". Many of the Anglican clergy felt legally bound by their previous oaths of allegiance to James II and, though they could accept William as regent, they could not accept him as king. It was not necessarily a split on matters of religious doctrine, but more of a political issue and a matter of conscience, though most of the nonjurors were high church Anglicans." (wiki).

Keywords: Carter Life Times John Kettlewell History Nonjurors Church England Oath Allegiance Anglican Nonjuring Schism Glorious Revolution Religion Politics A16394 Church History


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