Reformed Government

Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiatical Politics in Late Elizabethan England
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-879810-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

The culmination of cultural and literary achievements in the final decade of Elizabeth I's reign coincided with some of Tudor England's worst years economically which were exacerbated by plague, successive harvest failure, and belligerence at home and abroad. This critical edition of the scribal publication 'Reformed Government' c. 1594 provides a unique point of entry into the 1590s. Recovering a pivotal moment in the history of puritan radicalism, it represents the most extensive reformed response to the onslaught of anti-puritan literature in the late sixteenth century, including Richard Hooker's ^iLaws of Ecclesiastical Polity^r. In addition to mounting an epistemological and ecclesiastical defence of reformed presbyterian government, it sheds light on new appropriations of Renaissance ideas about historical contingency, and introduces a dynamic reading of Christian antiquity.

The edition also provides a wider context for later developments in the seventeenth century. Exploiting the instability of the period, the 'Reformed Government' seized the opportunity to re-imagine society and even anticipated the idea of altering civil and religious constitutions which theorists later developed in Revolutionary Britain. By expanding and reconfiguring the relationship between civil and ecclesiastical government, it imaginatively stretched the implications of historical change to entertain new possibilities. This recovery of an alternative vision of a reformed society in the late sixteenth century offers an alternative model for reading church history. Based on maximal visions and proposals of reform, the 'Reformed Government' is essential reading for the study of ecclesiastical tradition alongside confessional documents and summative statements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Jonathan D

Frankot, Edda

Ha, Polly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Polly Ha is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke Divinity School, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the author of English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640 (Stanford University Press, 2011), chief editor of The Puritans on Independence (Oxford University Press, 2017), and co-editor of The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2011). She formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Southern California, and East Anglia, and has held Research Fellowships at the British Academy, The University of Cambridge, the American Antiquarian Society, The Huntington Library, and the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin.

Jonathan D. Moore holds a PhD in historical theology and ecclesiastical history from the University of Cambridge and is the author of English Hypothetical Universalism (Eerdmans, 2007) and assistant editor of The Puritans on Independence (Oxford University Press). He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia, and an Adjunct Lecturer & Research Associate at Union Theological College, Belfast.

Edda Frankot is Associate Professor at Nord University in Norway. She has been involved in several editing projects including the 1641 Depositions project (1641.tcd.ie) and Aberdeen Registers Online. She is the author of Medieval Maritime Law in Urban Northern Europe (EUP, 2012) and Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands (Palgrave Pivot, 2021), assistant editor of The Puritans on Independence (Oxford University Press, 2017), and co-editor of Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours, c. 1350- c. 1650 (Routledge, 2020).