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Informationen zum Autor W.J. Torrance Kirby! DPhil in Modern History (Oxford University) was appointed Professor of Church History at McGill University in 1997. He has published extensively on Reformation thought! and his most recent books are Richard Hooker! Reformer and Platonist (2005) and Richard Hooker and the English Reformation (2003). Klappentext The book investigates and interprets the influence of the political theology of Heinrich Bullinger and Peter Martyr Vermigli in mid-Tudor England and especially on the theory, implementation, and consolidation of the Elizabethan constitutional and religious settlement of 1559. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'Cura religionis': The Prophetical Office and the Civil Magistrate Text: Bullinger! Of the office of the Magistrate (1552) 2. 'The Godly Prince': Union of Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Text: Vermigli! Of ciuill and ecclesiasticall power (1561) 3. 'Sinne and Sedition': Penance and the Duty of Obedience Text: Vermigli! A Sermon concernynge the tyme of rebellion (1549) 4. 'A Holy Deborah for Our Times': Vermigli's Panegyric to Elizabeth Text: Vermigli! Epistle to the Princess Elizabeth (1558) 5. 'Relics of the Amorites': The Civil Magistrate and Religious Uniformity Text: Bullinger! Whether it be mortall sinne to transgresse civil lawes (1566) Appendix 1. 'Vermilius Absconditus': The Zurich Portrait Appendix 2. Text: Vermigli! An Epistle to the Duke of Somerset (1550) Bibliography Index
