The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright

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The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright is a major late-16th-century polemical work by Archbishop John Whitgift defending the Elizabethan Church of England against Puritan criticisms advanced by Thomas Cartwright.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian literature
polemical work
theological treatise
aimsTo discredit Puritan proposals for church reform
justify the structure and ceremonies of the Church of England
approximatePublicationPeriod late 16th century
author John Whitgift
surface form: Archbishop John Whitgift

John Whitgift
countryOfOrigin England
genre controversial divinity
ecclesiological treatise
historicalContext English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era

Elizabethan religious controversies
English Reformation
influencedBy Reformed theology
intendedAudience English clergy
educated laypeople
language English
literaryForm prose
mainTheme defence of episcopacy
defence of the Elizabethan Church settlement
refutation of Puritan objections
opposes Presbyterian church polity
Puritanism
politicalContext reign of Elizabeth I
publicationCentury 16th century
religiousContext Church of England
religiousTradition Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
respondsTo An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament
surface form: Admonition to the Parliament

Puritan criticisms of the Church of England
Thomas Goodwin
surface form: Thomas Cartwright
significance important source for the history of Elizabethan religious controversy
major statement of conformist Anglican ecclesiology in the late 16th century
subjectOfDebate Elizabethan Church of England polity
supports Book of Common Prayer
canons of the Church of England
surface form: Church of England canons

Elizabethan religious settlement
episcopal church government
theologicalOrientation conformist Anglican
uses biblical exegesis
canon law arguments
patristic authorities

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John Whitgift notableWork The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright
An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament relatedWork The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright
this entity surface form: The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition