Building the Church of England

The Book of Common Prayer and the Edwardian Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54784-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Were mid-Tudor evangelicals roaring lions or meek lambs? Did they struggle with a minority complex, or were they comfortable with their position of political ascendancy under Edward VI? How did their theological blueprint of the ‘True Church’ fit their temporal realities? By relocating the Book of Common Prayer at the centre of the English Reformation, Stephen Tong gives new significance to two underacknowledged drivers of reform: ecclesiology and liturgy. Edwardian reformers caused a sensation in England by engaging with these questions, which spilled over into Ireland, and continued to cast a shadow over subsequent generations of the English Protestants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tong, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Tong, Ph.D. (2018), Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, is a History Master at Sydney Grammar School. He has published book chapters and articles on the English Reformation, including ‘The doctrine of the Sabbath in the Edwardian Reformation’ (Historical Research, 91, November 2018, 647-661).