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Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559 (Studies in Modern British Religious History)
Kenneth Carleton
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The role of bishops in the process of Reformation in the 16th century, studied from their surviving writings and contemporary discussion. The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the virtual extinction of the office in 1559. This work has at its core the bishops' own understanding of the episcopate, drawn from their surviving writings and other contemporary discussions; such a study is key to understanding what became of the English Church of the middle ages and what it was to become ... Read more
The role of bishops in the process of Reformation in the 16th century, studied from their surviving writings and contemporary discussion. The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the virtual extinction of the office in 1559. This work has at its core the bishops' own understanding of the episcopate, drawn from their surviving writings and other contemporary discussions; such a study is key to understanding what became of the English Church of the middle ages and what it was to become ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Boydell Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780851158167
SKU
V9780851158167
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Reviews for Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559 (Studies in Modern British Religious History)
Wide-ranging study...containing much of interest in its own right [and] likely to stimulate fresh thinking. on the Church during the early Reformation in England. HISTORY [Claire Cross]
Sets out to look at the episcopate as a whole over one period of what many of us now see as a number of Reformations... [It] relates ideas well to what bishops ... Read more
Sets out to look at the episcopate as a whole over one period of what many of us now see as a number of Reformations... [It] relates ideas well to what bishops ... Read more