Richard Smyth and the Language of Orthodoxy: Re-Imagining Tudor Catholic Polemicism

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12927-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

In the Tudor struggle for Reformation and Catholic Reformation, for power and for souls, Richard Smyth, theologian and educator, refined the art of polemicism to fight against the advance of heresy at home and abroad, both in the lingua franca of academic circles and the language of his own people.

A much neglected voice today, Smyth spoke passionately and influentially on justification, monastic vows, and the Eucharist. He clashed with leading reformers such as Bucer, Cranmer, Jewel and Vermigli in verbal debates and in print. New evidence from Douai shows how he trained and equipped a younger generation to continue the fight.

A fascinating and enlightening work for the interested layperson and the expert alike, Dr. Loewe’s scholarly and readable study dissects catholic reactions to the religious upheaval in England during the reigns of three successive Tudor monarchs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Löwe, J. Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Biography
2. Exegetical Lectures
3. Justification
4. Monastic Vows
5. Eucharistic Theology

Conclusion: ‘A Bouclier of the Catholike Fayth’

Bibliography
Indices
Name Index
Place Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. Andreas Löwe, Ph.D. (2001) in Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge, is a historian and a priest. He has published on key aspects of the English Reformations and the history of the church in the Low Countries.