Preaching During the English ReformationThis 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. |
Contents
For all Christian souls | 20 |
The Mass and the homily | 27 |
Amendment of life and the quarter sermons | 33 |
At the pulpit cross | 40 |
The sermon and the dead | 48 |
Pulpit men | 64 |
The ideal of the preacher | 66 |
The unwritten verities | 72 |
Flocking companies of friars | 107 |
The medicants and preaching licences | 111 |
The friars cowl and Anne Boleyn | 122 |
Sunset and sunrise | 139 |
The Name of Jesus | 147 |
Christ crucified | 149 |
The Holy Name and preaching chantries | 163 |
Every knee shall bow | 168 |
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