The Church of Ireland and its past : history, interpretation and identity / Mark Empey, Alan Ford & Miriam Moffitt, editors. - xii, 322 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'That noble dream': objectivity and the writing of Irish church history / Alan Ford -- Shaping history: James Ussher and the Church of Ireland / Alan Ford -- Creating a usable past: James and Robert Ware / Mark Empey -- Writing the history of the Church of Ireland in the eighteenth century / Toby Barnard -- High-church history: C.R. Elrington and his edition of James Ussher’s works / Jamie Blake-Knox -- Contested histories? Richard Mant’s History of the Church of Ireland and religious politics in early Victorian Belfast / Sean Farrell -- J.H. Todd and the Life of St Patrick / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín -- Bishop William Reeves, Adomnán, and the beginning of historical theology in Ireland / Thomas O’Loughlin -- Irishness, foreignness, and national identity: apostolic succession in disestablishment historiography / James Golden -- George T. Stokes and the oriental origins of Irish Christianity in the late nineteenth-century / Ruairí Cullen -- W.A. Phillip's History of the Church of Ireland (1933–4): a missed opportunity / Miriam Moffitt -- Church of Ireland historians and the twelfth-century reform of the Irish church, 1850–1950 / Miriam Moffitt -- Journeying into a wider world? The development of the histories of the Church of Ireland since 1950 / Ian D'Alton -- The debate about the Irish Reformation: some reflections on twentieth-century historiography -- 1. Revisiting the past: reflections on 'Why the Reformation failed in Ireland: une question mal posée' / Nicholas Canny -- 2. Taking sides? Lingering problematics in Irish church history / Karl S. Bottigheimer -- 3. The Irish Reformation debate in retrospect / Steven Ellis -- After Bradshaw: the debate on the Tudor Reformation in Ireland / James Murray -- One church, two histories: the Jacobean and the Caroline traditions in the Church of Ireland, 1600–2000 / Alan Ford -- Concluding reflections / David Hayton.

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Church of Ireland--History.

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