Defending the Faith
John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church
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This volume brings together a diverse group of Reformation scholars to examine the life, work, and enduring significance of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury from 1560 to 1571.
A theologian and scholar who worked with early reformers in England such as Peter Martyr Vermigli, Martin Bucer, and Thomas Cranmer, Jewel had a long-lasting influence over religious culture and identity. The essays included in this book shed light on often-neglected aspects of Jewel’s work, as well as his standing in Elizabethan culture not only as a priest but as a leader whose work as a polemicist and apologist played an important role in establishing the authority and legitimacy of the Elizabethan Church of England. The contributors also place Jewel in the wider context of gender studies, material culture, and social history.
With its inclusion of a short biography of Jewel’s early life and a complete list of his works published between 1560 and 1640, Defending the Faith is a fresh and robust look at an important Reformation figure who was recognized as a champion of the English Church, both by his enemies and by his fellow reformers.
In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Andrew Atherstone, Ian Atherton, Paul Dominiak, Alice Ferron, Paul A. Hartog, Torrance Kirby, W. Bradford Littlejohn, Aislinn Muller, Joshua Rodda, and Lucy Wooding.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: John Jewel and the Invention of the Church in England
Lucy Woodring
1. John Jewel’s Early Life: Developing a Community of Reformers
Angela Ranson
Part I: John Jewel as Theologian, Polemicist, and Apologist
2. The Homiletical Theologian: Jewel’s Self-Identity as Preacher of the Word
André A. Gazal
3. John Jewel at Paul’s Cross: A Culture of Persuasion and England’s Emerging Public Sphere
Torrance Kirby
4. “Silence Is a Fine Jewel for a Woman”: Anne Cooke Bacon, Jewel’s Apology, and Reformed Women’s Publications
Alice Ferron
5. “A Crime So Heinous”: The Concept of Heresy in John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of England
André A. Gazal
6. An Apology of the Church of England’s Cathedrals
Ian Atherton
7. The Jewel-Harding Controversy: Defending the Champion
Angela Ranson
8. Defending the Defender of the Faith: The Use of History in Responses to Queen Elizabeth’s Excommunication
Aislinn Muller
Part II: The Impact and Legacy of John Jewel
9. Moses the Magistrate: The Mosaic Theological Imaginaries of John Jewel and Richard Hooker in Elizabethan Apologetics
Paul Dominiak
10. The Use and Abuse of John Jewel in Richard Hooker’s Defense of the English Church
W. Bradford Littlejohn
11. Redefining Unity in the Jacobean Church: The Legacy of John Jewel
Angela Ranson
12. Edwin Sandys and the Defense of the Faith
Sarah Bastow
13. Defense, Dialectic, and Dialogue: The Role of the Antagonist in the English Church
Joshua Rodda
14. A Multifaceted Jewel: English Episcopacy, Ignatian Authenticity, and the Rise of Critical Patristic Scholarship
Paul A. Hartog
15. Defending Reformation Anglicanism: The Bishop Jewel Society at Oxford University, 1947-1975
Andrew Atherstone
Appendix: The Publications of the Jewel-Harding Controversy, 1560-1640
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index