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Robert D. Cornwall
Independent Scholar
Retired
Region
Midwest
Time Period
18th Century
Research Interests
18th Century British Church History, Nonjurors, Anglicanism,
Department PhD Program:
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Visible and Apostolic: The Constitution of the Church in High Church Anglican and Non-juror
Thought 1688-1745. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993.
Editor. Gilbert Burnet. Discourse of the Pastoral Care. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
Co-Editor with William Gibson, Religion, Politics and Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010.
"The Later Non-jurors and the Theological Basis of the Usages Controversy." Anglican Theological Review. 75 (Spring 1993): 166-86.
"The Church and Salvation: An Early Eighteenth-Century High Church Anglican Perspective." Anglican and Episcopal History. 62 (June 1993): 175-91.
"Advocacy of the Independence of the Church from the State in Eighteenth Century England: A Comparison of a Nonjuror and a Nonconformist View." Enlightenment and Dissent. 12 (1993): 12-27.
"Education for Ministry in the Augustan Age: A Comparison of the views of Gilbert Burnet and George Bull and their Implications for the Modern Church." Anglican Theological Review 78 (Spring 1996): 241-57.
"Divine Right Monarchy, Revolution, and the Church: Henry Dodwell's Critique of the
Reformation and the Defense of the Deprived Nonjuror Bishops." Anglican and Episcopal History. 68 (March 1999): 37-66.
"The Rite of Confirmation in Anglican Thought During the Eighteenth Century." Church History. 68 (June 1999): 359-372.
“Into Non-jury: The Resignation of Thomas Brett in 1715.” Archives (April-October 2014): 23-30.
I am an independent scholar, having a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. My dissertation was titled "Visbile and Apostolic: The Constution of the Church in High Church Anglican and Nonjuror Thought 1688-1745. A revision of the dissertation was published in 1993 by the University of Delaware Press, I am also a retired Disciples of Christ minister, theologian, and author.