{"product_id":"suspicious-moderate-anne-ashley-davenport-9780268100971","title":"Suspicious Moderate: The Life and Writings of Francis À Sancta Clara (1598-1680)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In \u003ci\u003eSuspicious Moderate\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual biography of the influential English Catholic theologian Francis à Sancta Clara (1598-1680). Born into a Protestant family in Coventry at the end of the sixteenth century, Sancta Clara joined the Franciscan order in 1617. He played key roles in reviving the English Franciscan province and in the efforts that were sponsored by Charles I to reunite the Church of England with Rome. In his voluminous Latin writings, he defended moderate Anglican doctrines, championed the separation of church and state, and called for state protection of freedom of conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspicious Moderate\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first detailed analysis of Sancta Clara's works. In addition to his notorious \u003ci\u003eDeus, natura, gratia\u003c\/i\u003e (1634), Sancta Clara wrote a comprehensive defense of episcopacy (1640), a monumental treatise on ecumenical councils (1649), and a treatise on natural philosophy and miracles (1662). By carefully examining the context of Sancta Clara's ideas, Davenport argues that he aimed at educating English Roman Catholics into a depoliticized and capacious Catholicism suited to personal moral reasoning in a pluralistic world. In the course of her research, Davenport also discovered that \"Philip Scot,\" the author of the earliest English discussions of Hobbes (a treatise published in 1650), was none other than Sancta Clara. Davenport demonstrates how Sancta Clara joined the effort to fight Hobbes's Erastianism by carefully reflecting on Hobbes's pioneering ideas and by attempting to find common ground with him, no matter how slight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Ashley Davenport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268100977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268100971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.63d","brand":"Anne Ashley Davenport","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583704658175,"sku":"9780268100971","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5069733a-442b-4753-a78e-5acf3f0fe66c.jpg?v=1701883101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/suspicious-moderate-anne-ashley-davenport-9780268100971","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}