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Revisiting sacred propaganda : the holy bishop and the seventeenth-century jansenist quarrel (2004)
Journal Article
Forrestal, A. (2004). Revisiting sacred propaganda : the holy bishop and the seventeenth-century jansenist quarrel. Reformation & Renaissance Review, 6(1), 7-36

In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, prelates such as Borromeo of Milan and de Sales of Geneva, began to reinvigorate this hierarchical office, offering models of episcopal government, discipline and pastorate for other prelates to adopt... Read More about Revisiting sacred propaganda : the holy bishop and the seventeenth-century jansenist quarrel.

Making bishops in Tridentine France : the episcopal ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus (2003)
Journal Article
Forrestal, A. (2003). Making bishops in Tridentine France : the episcopal ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 54(2), 254-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204690200564x

The experience of Jean-Pierre Camus, a reforming bishop in seventeenth-century France, highlights the problematic ambivalences present within French Catholic reform after the Council of Trent: the persistent tensions between bishops, the papacy and l... Read More about Making bishops in Tridentine France : the episcopal ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus.

‘Fathers, leaders, kings’ : episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French school (2002)
Journal Article
Forrestal, A. (2002). ‘Fathers, leaders, kings’ : episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French school. The Seventeenth Century, XVII(1), 24-47

In their drive to `sanctify' the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy. This article traces the development of the French School's theology of... Read More about ‘Fathers, leaders, kings’ : episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French school.