John Davenant

John Davenant

John Davenant (London, 20 May1572- Salisbury, 20 April1641) was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621.

Life

He was a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1597, and its President from 1614 to 1621. He was a representative for the Church of England at the Synod of Dort in 1618, along with Samuel Ward, Joseph Hall and George Carleton.

He later came into conflict with William Laud, who regarded him as a suspect Calvinist.

Views

At Dort there were divisions in the Anglican camp:

A compromise pursued went in Davenant's direction. It has been said:

Davenant sympathised with the aims of John Dury, as far as unifying Protestantism went, and wrote in his favour, a piece subsequently quoted by Gerard Brandt [ [http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/1871/10534/1/Brandt.pdf PDF] , p. 7.] .

On the topic of predestination, he engaged in controversy with the Arminian Anglican Samuel Hoard.

References

*"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.joelgarver.com/writ/hist/davenant.htm]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/lifeletterswriti00fulliala The life, letters & writings of John Davenant D.D., 1572-1641, Lord Bishop of Salisbury (1897)] online text
* [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/d/davenant_j.shtml]


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