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Sep 22, 2024 · Lancelot Andrewes was a theologian and court preacher who sought to defend and advance Anglican doctrines during a period of great strife in the English church. Andrewes was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1575 and was ordained a deacon in 1580. His service to several parishes.
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Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 25 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
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Besides contending for the greatest name in British history, Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was the most renowned preacher of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Nicknamed stella predicantium (“star of preachers”) by Thomas Fuller, Andrewes has been a source of fascination and reverence for Catholic-leaning Anglicans from Archbishop William Laud in th...
Early Life and Education
Lancelot was the first of twelve children born to Thomas and Joan Andrewes, a modestly prosperous London family. Thomas was a mariner and prominent member of Trinity House, the mariner’s guild that controlled the port of London. Early on, Lancelot was recognized as an exceedingly promising scholar, and he won a prestigious scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Andrewes evidently shunned games and was excessively devoted to study. His only recreation was walking, alone or with someone “w...
Elizabethan Appointments
In 1590, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to Queen Elizabeth herself. While in service to Whitgift, Andrewes met John Buckeridge, who with Richard Neile and Andrewes later formed the Durham House Group, a high church liturgical party devoted to what Nicholas Tyacke has called “avant-garde conformity.” This group of Arminian theologians (Andrewes drifted toward an Arminian position on soteriology from the 1590s onward) would ultimately give ri...
Jacobian Appointments
At the accession of James I in 1603, the King was similarly impressed with Andrewes, and he continued to receive preferments. By this time, Andrewes was hostile to the Puritan party within the Church of England, and at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, he defended the sign of the cross at baptism, which Puritans had rejected. In 1605, James appointed Andrewes to the vacant see of Chichester. The foiled Gunpowder Plot of that year led James to institute an oath of loyalty designed to separ...
Liturgical Preaching
Although we will likely never again see an “Andrean” moment in preaching (it’s difficult to imagine even the most scholarly sitting through one of Andrewes’s sermons), there is nonetheless a great deal to learn from how Andrewes thought of the task of homiletics. His was a “calendrical piety” par excellence—his preaching follows the cycle of the Christian year and returns over and over again to the life of Christ and foundation of the Church, showing the close connections between these epocha...
Equality of Word and Sacrament
Secondly, we can learn from Andrewes to value word and sacrament equally in the Eucharistic context of worship. Andrewes believed that the Eucharist was the heart of worship, but that it was always attended and contextualized by the reading and preaching of the Scriptures. His sermons tend to set up the auditor for our reception of the Eucharist. Sometimes the connections he draws between word and sacrament are especially illuminating, as in one of his sermons on the Nativity:
Real Presence
We can also learn from him to take seriously what we are doing when we receive the Eucharist. As he made clear in his Two Replies to Cardinal Perron, the English church rejected transubstantiation. But like John Jewel, the spiritual presence of Christ in the sacrament was imaged in patristic terms as the presence of Christ’s body and blood being really and truly present by the power of the Holy Spirit to us so that we might be made into the people of Christ: “there is another congruity for th...
Andrewes, Lancelot, Opuscula Quaedam Posthuma (1852). Andrewes, Lancelot, Works, 11 vols., eds. JP Wilson and James Bliss, Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology (1848-1854). Gross, Bobby, Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God(Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009). Isaacson, Henry, The Life…of Lancelot Andrewes(1650). McKenzie,...
Paul Welsby notes that “Andrewes’s actual style of preaching was not for lesser men to imitate, and when they did so it usually descended into punning and word-playing for its own sake. Bishop Felton once said: ‘I had almost marred my own natural trot by endeavouring to imitate his artificial ramble.’ It was for this reason that Andrewes’s style we...
Mar 31, 2021 · He was the author of a widely read devotional work, Preces priuatae, which has been likened to the spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola for an English audience. It has come to be his most popular and most reprinted work, influencing the Tractarians and host of modern readers.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), Bishop of Winchester, was on the committee of scholars that produced the King James Translation of the Bible, and probably contributed more to that work than any other single person.
Sep 25, 2021 · LANCELOT ANDREWES is an important name in Anglicanism. As a bishop and scholar he believed in a certain and settled church authority built on the primary authority of Holy Scripture: One Bible (canon), two testaments, three creeds (Apostles', Nicene, Athanasian), four councils, and five centuries (Church Fathers).
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Jan 11, 2023 · Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1655-1625) was a giant of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era in the Church of England and the development of the orthodox faith in the Anglican tradition. Born in 1555, Andrewes was recognized throughout the realm as a man of high intellect, erudite and poignant communication, and private piety.
