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'''Thomas Jackson''' (1579 – 1640) was an English theologian, and President of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]. Originally a [[Calvinist]], he became in later life an [[Arminian]].<ref name = EB1911/><br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born at [[Witton-le-Wear]], [[County Durham]], and educated at the [[University of Oxford]], where he attended [[Queen’s College, Oxford|Queen’s College]] from 1595.<ref>Diana Newton, North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity (2006), p. 133.</ref> He became a probationer fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1606, and was soon afterwards elected vice-president there.<ref name = EB1911/><br />
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In 1623 James Thomas Jackson was presented to the living of [[St Nicholas, Newcastle]], and about 1625 to the living of [[Winston, County Durham]]. In 1631 he was appointed President of Corpus;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63883 |title=Corpus Christi College &#124; British History Online |website=British-history.ac.uk |access-date=2016-05-19}}</ref> and in 1632 [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] presented him to the living of [[Witney, Oxfordshire]]. He was made a prebendary of Winchester in 1635, and was [[Dean of Peterborough]] from 1635 to 1639.<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Jackson, Thomas |volume=15 |page=110}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
His chief work was a series of commentaries on the [[Apostles' Creed]], the first complete edition being entitled ''The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D.'' (London, 1673), edited by [[Barnabas Oley]]. The commentaries were originally published in 1613 to 1657, as twelve books with different titles, the first being ''The Eternal Truth of Scriptures'' (London, 1613).<ref name = EB1911/><br />
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==Views==<br />
Strongly against the Catholic doctrine on [[transubstantiation]], he belonged to the "[[Durham House group]]" headed by [[Richard Neile]].<ref>Anthony Milton, ''Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600–1640'' (2002), p. 197.</ref><ref>Andrew Foster, ''Archbishop Neile Revisited'', p. 160, in Peter Lake, Michael C. Questier (editors), ''Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C. 1560–1660'' (2000).</ref> He was an early anti-Calvinist among Oxford theologians. He made his views known only in the late 1620s, but stated that around 1605 he had already decided against [[predestination]].<ref>Nicholas Tyacke, ''Aspects of English Protestantism, C. 1530–1700'' (2001), p. 269.</ref><br />
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In theology he was a syncretic [[Platonist]].<ref>Michael Hattaway, ''A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture'' (2003), p. 50.</ref> He took an interest in the [[Epicurean]] view of [[free will]], but argued for a middle way accommodating the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] criticism of the Epicureans.<ref>Reid Barbour, ''English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture'' (1998), p. 96.</ref> His humanistic Platonism has been compared to that of [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]]; and [[William Prynne]], arguing against [[William Laud]]'s promotion of Jackson, claimed his learning only made him more dangerous.<ref>Angus Gowland, ''The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context'' (2006), pp. 203-4.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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*{{cite DNB |wstitle=Jackson, Thomas (1579-1640) |first=Emily Tennyson |last=Bradley |author-link=Emily Tennyson Bradley |volume=29 |pages=107-108}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Sarah Hutton, ''Thomas Jackson, Oxford Platonist, and William Twisse, Aristotelian'', Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1978), pp.&nbsp;635–652.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://web.mac.com/brian.douglas/Anglican_Eucharistic_Theology/Blog/Entries/2006/5/3_Thomas_Jackson1579-1632Theologian,_President_of_Corpus_Christi_College,_Oxford_and_Dean_of_Peterborough.html ''Anglican Eucharistic Theology'']<br />
* http://www.seaham.i12.com/myers/m-jackson1.html<br />
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