Thomas White and the Blackloists: Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War

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Stefania Tutino Professor Giorgio Caravale

Thomas White and the Blackloists

Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War

Stefania Tutino, Professor Giorgio Caravale, Professor Ralph Keen , Professor J. Christopher Warner

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Routledge
13 November 2008

British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; English Civil War; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

This is the first book-length study of the political and theological views of Thomas White (alias Blacklo) and his followers the Blackloists. It both complements and opens up new lines of inquiry in the context of the current scholarship in two main areas. On the one hand, historians of early modern England are paying a tremendous amount of attention to the English Catholic Church, stressing the importance of the Catholic perspective in order to get a more accurate picture of England's religious and political history. This study responds to these suggestions by analyzing a group of English Catholics greatly influential in a complex period of the history of England.

On the other hand and more generally, the volume explores the question of the intersection between politics and religion during the 1640s and 1650s in a historiographical context in which the manifold and complex link between the language of natural law and the language of theology in the history of English Republicanism is currently being taken into a greater account by a number of scholars. In this context, White's political theory can be used as an extremely interesting case-study to show how natural law bridged the complexity of the relationship between theological and secular arguments put forward in the debate around issues such as the nature and limit of government and the relationship between subjects and governors.

As well as providing a detailed study of White and his views, this book also provides a modern edition of the full text of his most important political treatise The Grounds of Obedience and Government, a distinctly Catholic version of contractualism, that appeared to offer succour to a militantly Protestant republican regime.

By: Stefania Tutino
Series edited by: Professor Giorgio Caravale, Professor Ralph Keen, Professor J. Christopher Warner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754658177
ISBN 10: 0754658171
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 13 November 2008
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Stefania Tutino is based in the Department of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Reviews for Thomas White and the Blackloists: Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War

'... Tutino's work is an important contribution to the continuing reintegration of Catholics into English history.' The Tablet '... [Tutino's] book, compactly written and cogently argued, illuminates the hitherto underexplored aspects of English religious and intellectual history by putting White and the Blackloists at the key nexus between old and new paradigms in scientific and religious discourse.' American Historical Review 'The author's analysis of White's The Grounds of Obedience and Government (London, 1655) is very good.' Catholic Historical Review