Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 1699) was a British theologian. Events February 10 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. ... Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...

He was born in Cranbourne, Dorset, and educated at Cambridge. He entered the Church, and held many preferments, including a Royal Chaplaincy, the Deanery of St Paul's (1678), and the Bishopric of Worcester (1689). He was a frequent speaker in the House of Lords, and had considerable influence as a Churchman. A keen controversialist, he wrote many treatises, including The Irenicum (advocating compromise with the Presbyterians), Antiquities of the British Churches, and The Unreasonableness of Separation. Stillingfleet was a good and honest man and had the respect of his strongest opponents. Cranbourne is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Jump to: navigation, search Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Jump to: navigation, search Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... A chaplain is a priest or a member of the clergy serving a group of people who are not organized as a mission or church. ... The Dean of St Pauls is the head of the Chapter of St Pauls Cathedral in London, England and an extremely influential position in the Church of England. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... The Bishop of Worcester controls the see of Worcester and has his seat in Worcester Cathedral. ... Events Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir, allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Presbyterianism is a form of church government, practiced by many (although not all) of those Protestant churches (known as Reformed churches), which historically subscribed to the teachings of John Calvin. ...

Stillingfleet was a scholarly man and at his death left a library of some 10,000 books, which was purchased by Narcissus Marsh and is today housed in Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland.