https://hcommons.org/members/forda56/activity/ Activity feed for Alan Ford. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:47:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b4425a18bb8e90cef90aac526b767649 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895192/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:27:20 -0400 0 154c9501f0d19020779ae7c3c98c3dde https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840581/ Sun, 09 Apr 2023 11:00:24 -0400 0 dfada0b3867f6447c43501f752eef27d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840580/ Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:52:32 -0400 0 654cd42bc7852b73cb942bc0ef2fdebd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830684/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:31:04 -0500 Puritanism has, rightly, been seen as a primarily English phenomenon. But puritan ideas can also be studied in very different contexts, as they spread throughout the English-speaking religious world. This article seeks to “decentre” puritanism by examining it from the perspective of the other two national churches in Britain and Ireland – those…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b3f13c089ca5ce631f7a836391340a2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827108/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:08:41 -0500 0 f25f4e121a456167b202680127bdac62 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827106/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:01:23 -0500 In 1870, disestablishment suddenly turned the Church of Ireland from a state church into a democracy, governed by its “parliament,” the General Synod. The empowerment of the laity left it with a distinctive, indeed unique, feature among the churches of the Anglican communion—a set of disciplinary canons designed to exclude high-church ritua…[Read more]

]]> 0 0633b5dcc2e6be3d126fc0b3829d4754 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817447/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:28:02 -0400 This book traces the process by which a Protestant Church was created in Ireland from the end of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century. It looks at how clergy were educated and recruited, how they approached the task of ministering to the Irish people, how a diocesan and parish structure was created, and finally examines the…[Read more]

]]> 0 10ad0d9222b1ddf00d960fbe1f1d965f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752021/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:28:55 -0400 0 f70ba7f718ce063ef0978d9301b06768 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752020/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:19:30 -0400 This article examines the differing high and low-church approaches to the early-modern Irish reformation, looking in particular at the approaches of two historians, the Presbyterian James Seaton Reid, and the high-church Trinity Professor, Charles Elrington.

]]> 0 3f77fbf289939b4383db9897e28775bc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752005/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:30:15 -0400 The Church of Ireland, was in many ways a clone of the Church of England. The Irish reformation legislation which established the Church of Ireland was largely a copy of Henry VIII's acts establishing the Church of England. And many English politicians and clergy thought of the Church of Ireland as wholly dependent on the Church of England. But…[Read more]

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