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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464097303321

Autore

Reeves Ryan M.

Titolo

English evangelicals and Tudor obedience, c. 1527-1570 / / by Ryan M. Reeves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2014

ISBN

90-04-26174-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of Christian traditions, , 1573-5664 ; ; volume 167

Disciplina

274.2/06

Soggetti

Obedience - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - 16th century

Evangelicalism - Great Britain - History - 16th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Ryan M. Reeves -- Introduction / Ryan M. Reeves -- ‘Ye Gods’: Political Obedience from Tyndale to Cromwell, c. 1528–1540 / Ryan M. Reeves -- English Evangelicals, Persecution, and Obedience, 1540–1547 / Ryan M. Reeves -- Henrician Rhetoric and Godly Josiah: Obedience and Edward VI (1547–1553) / Ryan M. Reeves -- ‘That Outrageous Pamphlet’: Obedience and Resistance, c. 1553–1558 / Ryan M. Reeves -- ‘If the Prince Shall Forbid’: Divisions over Evangelical Obedience in the 1560's / Ryan M. Reeves -- Conclusion / Ryan M. Reeves -- Bibliography / Ryan M. Reeves -- Index / Ryan M. Reeves.

Sommario/riassunto

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-1520's, 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.