ABSTRACT
This book offers the biblical justice and numinous motifs as a means of gauging theological, and consequently political, perspective. This approach has produced consistent conclusions which indicate that James Ussher gravitated toward the justice pole with its leitmotifs of law and judgement. It shows that in all these areas what emerges from John Bramhall's writings, sermons and policy is an ecclesiastic who is drawn, just as strongly as Ussher, but in the opposite direction toward the numinous motif. Bramhall is optimistic in his assessment of the nature of man. If we expand on Bramhall's metaphor and regard these candelabra as separate Churches, we may position the Reformed to the left, the Catholic to the right. Ussher's justice and Bramhall's numinous motifs would surely have dragged them in opposite directions, Ussher to the left and Bramhall to the right of the shrine.
