The Catholic Church and the English Civil War: The Case of Thomas White

Tutino, Stefania

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“…But by promoting Catholic liberty within a framework of toleration that extended to all strands of Protestantism, Thomas White's coterie moved closer to the practices deployed in Maryland. 118 These ideas endured in certain circles after the Restoration.…”

Section: The Colonies and The Politics Of The English Catholic Communitymentioning

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Glickman¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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Throughout the reign of Charles II, a growing number of Catholics entered into the civil and military infrastructure of the overseas colonies. While Maryland was consolidated as a center of settlement, a new crop of English and Irish officeholders shaped the political development of Tangier, New York and the Leeward Islands. Their careers highlighted the opportunities of overseas expansion as a route into the public domain: a chance for Catholics to sidestep the penal restrictions of the three kingdoms and construct an alternative relationship with the crown. This article examines the emergence of Catholic authority within the plantations, and situates the experiment within larger shifts in strategic and ideological debate over English colonization. I suggest that experiences in the colonies invigorated economic and political strategies that became central to the advancement of Catholic interests in the domestic realm. While colonial trade bolstered Catholic estates against penal pressures, the new settlements provided the training ground for attempts to demonstrate the compatibility of confessional pluralism with commercial flourishing and civil allegiance. The effect, however, was to raise conflict in colonial politics and heighten anxieties in the domestic realm over the effects of overseas plantation. I argue that by uncovering a neglected sphere of “recusant history” we gain new insights into the ideological fragilities that disrupted the pursuit of territories overseas. Catholic promotions exposed a growing tension between the “Protestant interest” and the principles and practices that informed the expansion of the Stuart realm.

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Glickman¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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“…His thoughts on the matter of allegiance located him within the ' Blacklowist ' tradition of Thomas White, Kenelm Digby, and John Sergeant, whose 1655 pledge of submission to Oliver Cromwell had fronted a rationalizing view of the relationship between civil and religious powers, accompanied by a call for the reduction of papal authority and a thorough reform of the Catholic faith. 60 Dodd retained lasting sympathy for this position, using the Church history to defend White as ' a kind of enterpriser in the search of truth ' who ' sometimes lost himself by treading in unbeaten paths ' but whose genius would be recognized when 'time and recollection has plac'd things in a true light '. 61 However, such principles did not make the Catholick system any more viable as a political enterprise.…”

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Gothic History and Catholic Enlightenment in the Works of Charles Dodd (1672–1743)

Glickman

2011

Hist. J.

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The clergyman-scholar Charles Dodd used the study of the past to articulate a defence of the English Catholic community that enjoyed a rich legacy. His Church history proclaimed a vision of Catholic patriotism that appealed to the influence of medieval and Reformation history on contemporary religious debates, and informed the later push for civil emancipation. Dodd's work brought together two fashionable but seemingly contrary, historical sensibilities: grounded upon antiquarian recoveries of the gothic past, but shaped by a cosmopolitan spirit of ‘reason’ that drew upon continental reformist schools. Challenging the narratives forged through the Reformation, he pitched his works across a wide spectrum of English scholarly life, seeking dialogue with high-churchmen, constitutionalists, and supporters of religious toleration. But Dodd's later reputation as a herald of Catholic Enlightenment belied the controversies roused in his career. In delivering his view of history, Dodd was forced to suppress radical thoughts on the nature of English monarchy, stumbled into conflicts with fellow clergymen, and risked the taint of heresy with reflections upon the Holy See. Conceived to construct a new intellectual platform for his co-religionists within their national community, his works served inadvertently to reveal the complexity and fragility of English Catholic life.

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Sir Kenelm Digby, the Immortality of the Soul, and Philosophical Theology in Seventeenth-Century England

Henry

2022

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Internationales d'Histoire Des Idées

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The Catholic Church and the English Civil War: The Case of Thomas White

Cited by 21 publications

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Gothic History and Catholic Enlightenment in the Works of Charles Dodd (1672–1743)

Sir Kenelm Digby, the Immortality of the Soul, and Philosophical Theology in Seventeenth-Century England

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