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Reformation of the Commonwealth Thomas Becon and the Politics of Evangelical Change in Tudor England
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Reformed Historical Theology
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Erscheinungsdatum
16.09.2019
Verlag
Vandenhoeck + RuprechtSeitenzahl
250 (Printausgabe)
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1977 KB
Auflage
1. Edition
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783647554549
This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals' vision of a >godly< commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England. Using the clergyman and bestselling author, Thomas Becon (1512-1567), as a case study, Brian L. Hanson argues that evangelical views of the commonwealth were situation-dependent rather than uniform, fluctuating from individual to individual. His study examines the ways commonwealth rhetoric was used by evangelicals and how that rhetoric developed and changed. While this study draws from English Reformation historiography by acknowledging the chronology of reform, it engages with interdisciplinary texts on poverty, gender, and the economy in order to demonstrate the intersection of commonwealth rhetoric with Renaissance humanism. Furthermore, the experience of exile and the languages of prophecy and companionship directly influenced commonwealth rhetoric and dictated the priorities, vocabulary, and political expression of the evangelicals. As sixteenth-century England vacillated in its religious direction and priorities, the evangelicals were faced with a political conundrum and the tension between obedience and >lawful< disobedience. There was ultimately a fundamental disagreement on the nature and criteria of obedience. Hanson's study makes a further contribution to the emerging conversation about English commonwealth politics by examining the important issues of obedience and disobedience within the evangelical community. A correct assessment of the issues surrounding the relationship between evangelicals and the commonwealth government will lead to a rediscovery of both the complexities of evangelical commonwealth rhetoric and the tension between the biblical command to submit to civil authorities and the injunction to >obey God rather than man<.
Brian L. Hanson is Assistant Professor of History at Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis.
Brian L. Hanson is Assistant Professor of History at Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis.
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