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

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, volume 167
• VerfasserIn: Reeves, Ryan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 167.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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.