Robert Sanderson (theologian)

The Right Reverend

Robert Sanderson
The Right Reverend; Robert Sanderson
Bishop of Lincoln
	Robert Sanderson by John Riley
Diocese	Diocese of Lincoln
In office	24 October 1660 – 1663 (d.)
Predecessor	Thomas Winniffe
Successor	Benjamin Lany
Other post(s)	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1642–1648 & 1660–1661)
Orders
Consecration	28 October 1660; by Brian Duppa
Personal details
Born	19 September 1587; Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	29 January 1663 (aged 75)
Buried	St Mary's Church, Buckden
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Ann Nelson
Alma mater	Lincoln College, Oxford

Robert Sanderson (19 September 1587 – 29 January 1663) was an English theologian and casuist.

Family and education

He was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire and grew up at Gilthwaite Hall, near Rotherham.^[1] He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. Entering the Church, he rose to be Bishop of Lincoln.

Logician

His work on logic, Logicae Artis Compendium (1615), was long a standard treatise on the subject. It enjoyed at least ten editions during the seventeenth century and was widely read as a textbook. Sanderson's biographer, Izaak Walton writes that by 1678, 'Logicae' had sold 10,000 copies. In her introduction to the 1985 facsimile edition, E. J. Ashworth writes that "The young Isaac Newton studied Sanderson's logic at Cambridge, and as late as 1704." Thomas Heywood of St. John's College, Ashworth adds, recommended Newton "Sanderson or Aristotle himself". Sanderson's logic remained popular even after the appearance of the influential Port-Royal Logic.

Church career

Sanderson's sermons were also admired; but he is perhaps best remembered for his Nine Cases of Conscience Resolved (1678), in consideration of which he has been placed at the head of English casuists. He left large collections of historical and heraldic matter in MS.

At the Stuart Restoration, he was elected to the See of Lincoln on 13 October 1660, confirmed 24 October and consecrated a bishop on 28 October.^[2] He was a Calvinist in theology and believed only some individuals were predestined to salvation and eternal life by their calling from God.^[3] He further believed that the church, being the small group of pious individuals, kept the nation adverse destinies.

Sanderson is today perhaps best known as the subject of one of Izaak Walton's Lives, published in 1678.

Works

The Works of Robert Sanderson in Six Volumes (1854) edited by William Jacobson. Oxford at the University Press. Most volumes are available in full or partial views in Google Books.
Logicae Artis Compendium, edited by E. J. Ashworth. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1985. Also published as vol.VI in 'The Works of Robert Sanderson in Six Volumes' W. Jacobson (ed).

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.

Lupton, Joseph Hirst (1897). "Sanderson, Robert (1587-1663)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

^ Odom, William (1926). "Bishops—Clergy—Ministers". Hallamshire worthies. Sheffield: Northend. pp. 30–31. OCLC 23581396.
^ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, 1999, pp. 1–5
^ Lake, Peter G. “Serving God and the Times: The Calvinist Conformity of Robert Sanderson.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 1988, pp. 81–116. JSTOR website Retrieved 27 April 2023.

External links

Short biography at Rotherham.co.uk
Works by Robert Sanderson at Open Library
Archival Material at Leeds University Library

Academic offices
Preceded by John Prideaux	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1642–1648	Succeeded by Joshua Hoyle
Preceded by John Conant	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1660–1661	Succeeded by William Creed
Church of England titles
Vacant Title last held by Thomas Winniffe	Bishop of Lincoln 1660–1663	Succeeded by Benjamin Lany

[Odom-1] Odom, William (1926). "Bishops—Clergy—Ministers". Hallamshire worthies. Sheffield: Northend. pp. 30–31. OCLC 23581396.

[2] Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, 1999, pp. 1–5

[3] Lake, Peter G. “Serving God and the Times: The Calvinist Conformity of Robert Sanderson.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 1988, pp. 81–116. JSTOR website Retrieved 27 April 2023.

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