1. Arminianism, the English Civil War, and Historiography
Jesse McCarthy

2. English Civil War

4. Church of England Monarch supreme governor of the Church of England
Elizabethan Religious Settlement
James I vs. Charles I
Catholic and Reformed
Adiaphora
Nonconformity

5. English Calvinism English Arminianism
Absolute and Double Predestination Preaching/word centered liturgy Relatively tolerant of nonconformity Connected to continental Reformed/Calvinist tradition
Conditional Predestination
Sacrament centered liturgy
Very intolerant of nonconformity
Reliant on monarchy
Redefinition of Puritanism

6. A Plea to An Appeale (1626)
Ibis ad Caesarem (1626)

7. A New Gagg (1624)
Appello Caesarem (1625)

8. War of Words Arminian Pelagian Semi-Pelagian Pontifician Arminian
Lutheran
pseudo-Lutheran
Montagutian
Roman Catholic
Papist
Arian

9. Politics Acrimonious religious conflict
Arminianism major issue in English Parliament and 1640 until execution of Charles I and William Laud
Massive religious unrest in Scotland and political unrest in Ireland
Arminianism becomes inextricably linked to monarchy

10. Charles I r. (1625 – 1649) Stubborn and Pigheaded
Support of Arminianism
Continued conflict with Parliament
Extraparliamentary rule
Personal rule
Taxation
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham ( )

11. Francis Rous ( )

12. Richard Montague ( )

13. Historiography What was the English Civil War Why did it happen?
What role did religion play?
What role did politics play?

14. Whig S.R. Gardiner, H.M. Treveylan
British constitutional parliamentary democracy
History follows a predetermined path
Progress
English Civil War
Grasping despotic kings vs. heroic Parliamentarian champions of liberty
Puritan Revolution vs. Conservative Church

15. Marxist Christopher Hill Class struggle Progress English Civil War
Bourgeois revolution
Puritan revolution vs. Conservative Church

16. Revisionist Nicholas Tyacke, Conrad Russell, Sears McGee Contingency
Most important causes lie in the years immediately preceding the
English Civil War not inevitable
Long term problems of English body politic
Charles I
Insurgent English Arminianism vs. Calvinist Establishment