John Jewel and the English National Church

John Jewel and the English National Church

The Dilemmas of an Erastian Reformer

Jenkins, Gary W.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2006

308

Dura

Inglês

9780754635857

15 a 20 dias

Drawing on a variety of sources and scholarship to talk about John Jewel, this work paints a picture not of a theologian and humanist, but an orator and rhetorician, who persistently breached the rules of logic and the canons of Renaissance humanism in an effort to claim polemical victory over his traditionalist opponents such as Thomas Harding.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Oxford and exile, Jewel till 1558; Jewel and the struggle for the Elizabethan church; The Catholic reaction to Jewel; A prelate public and private: Jewel caught between Puritans and princes; Life as a bishop in Salisbury; Jewel and the identity of the English national church; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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