Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Ussher in Ireland
1: Controversy and religious identity in sixteenth-century Ireland
2: Intellectual formation: Trinity College, Dublin
3: Ussher and the shaping of Irish protestant theology
4: Ussher and the Irish articles of 1615
5: Theology and politics: 1615-25
6: Religion, history and protestant national identity
7: The defence of Calvinism, 1626-33
8: Internal exile: Ussher and Laudianism 1633-40
9: Ussher and Irish history: Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates
Part II: Ussher in England
10: Ussher and the defence of episcopacy
11: 'No man can serve two masters': the Civil War and after
12: Conclusion: history, theology and politics in Ireland and Britain

About the Author

Alan Ford is Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham.

Reviews

a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the role of religion in early modern society. Nicholas Keene, Ecclesiastic History [an] excellent study. I can warmly recommend this book to other specialists. Judith Maltby, Church Times