Celebrating Bishop Jeremy Taylor

THIS YEAR marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor from 1661 until his death in 1667 and a revered Anglican divine of the Caroline, post-Cromwellian, period in Ireland. He was much celebrated in the writings of Archbishop Harry McAdoo in the 1980s and ’90s, especially with reference to his eucharistic theology. The following is a brief digest of a sermon preached by Bishop Samuel Poyntz at St George’s, Belfast, on September 22nd 2013.

“Man of God” is a phrase that leaps out of the pages of both the Old and New Testaments – designating one who stands on the manward side of God and the God-ward side of man. Such a man of God was Jeremy Taylor, the 400th anniversary of whose birth falls this year.

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Samuel G Poyntz

Bishop of Connor, (1987–1995) and Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, (1976–1987)