- John Davenant
John Davenant (London,
20 May 1572 -Salisbury ,20 April 1641 ) was an English academic andbishop 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 theChurch of England at theSynod of Dort in 1618, along with Samuel Ward, Joseph Hall andGeorge Carleton .He later came into conflict with
William Laud , who regarded him as a suspectCalvinist .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 byGerard 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 theArminian AnglicanSamuel 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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