Preaching during the English Reformation

A study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centred around preaching.

Susan Wabuda (Author)

9780521453950, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 November 2002

228 pages, 15 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg

"A fine study." Bibliotheque d'humanisme et Renaissance

This is a study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centred 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 one of the attributes of moderate Protestant belief. The book also offers fresh perspectives on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century figures on every side of the doctrinal divide, including John Rotheram, John Colet, Hugh Latimer and Anne Boleyn.

Introduction
1. For all Christian souls
2. Pulpit men
3. Flocking companies of friars
4. The name of Jesus
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Protestantism & Protestant Churches [HRCC9], History of religion [HRAX], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]