English Evangelicals and Tudor Obedience, C.1527-1570

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25011-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 167, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 469 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

The heart of this book lies in the important discovery that a pivotal Tudor argument in favor of the Royal Supremacy—the argument from Psalm 82 that earthly kings are ‘gods’ on this earth—is in fact Zwinglian in origin. This teaching from Psalm 82, which originated in Zurich in the mid-1520s, was soon used extensively in England to justify the Supremacy, and English evangelicals—from Tyndale to Cranmer—unanimously embraced this Protestant argument in their writings on political obedience. The discovery of this link shows conclusive, textual proof of the ‘Zurich Connection’ between Swiss political teachings and those popular under Tudor kings. This study argues, then, that evangelical attitudes towards royal authority were motivated by the assumption that Protestantism supported ‘godly kingship’ over against ‘papal tyranny’. As such, it is the first monograph to find a vital connection between early Swiss Protestant similar teachings on obedience and later teachings by evangelicals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reeves, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. ‘Ye Gods’: Political Obedience from Tyndale to Cromwell, c.1528–1540
2. English Evangelicals, Persecution, and Obedience, 1540–1547
3. Henrician Rhetoric and Godly Josiah: Obedience and Edward VI (1547–1553)
4. ‘That Outrageous Pamphlet’: Obedience and Resistance, c.1553–1558
5. ‘If the Prince Shall Forbid’: Divisions over Evangelical Obedience in the 1560s
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan M. Reeves, PhD (2011), University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Dean of the Jacksonville Campus.