Stillingfleet, Edward

Stillingfleet, Edward
(1635–99)
   Bishop, Devotional Writer and Historian.
   Stillingfleet was born in Dorset and was educated at the University of Cambridge. He became Archdeacon of London in 1677, Dean of St Paul’s in 1678 and Bishop of Worcester in 1689. He was known for his tolerance. In his Irenicum, he recommended that the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians join forces. At the same time he produced three pamphlets replying to locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and he wrote his Rational Account of the Grounds of the Protestant Religion in response to a Roman Catholic polemic. He is chiefly remembered, however, for his Origines Britannicae on the sources of the British Church and for the popular collection of his sermons.
   J.W.H. Nankivell, ‘Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester’, Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society (1946).

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