Preaching during the English Reformation
By: Susan Wabuda.
Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Preaching -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Reformation -- England.; England -- Church history.
Description: "This is a study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centered around preaching, and is concerned with competing forms of evangelism between humanists of the Roman Catholic Church and emerging forms of Protestantism." "More than any other authority, Erasmus refashioned the ideal of the preacher. Protestant reformers adopted "preaching Christ" as their strategy to promote the doctrine of justification by faith. The apostolic traditions of the preaching chantries provided standards that evangelical reformers used to supplant the mendicant friars in England. The late-medieval cult of the Holy Name of Jesus is explored: the pervasive iconography of its symbol "IHS" became an attribute of moderate Protestant belief." "The book also offers fresh perspectives on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century figures on every side of the doctrinal divide, including Thomas Rotherham, John Colet, Hugh Latimer, and Anne Boleyn."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.