Building the Church of England: The Book of Common Prayer and the Edwardian Reformation

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
Introduction: A Holy Church Unknown to the World
	1 An Ecclesiological Paradox
	2 The Marks of the True Church
	3 Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in Mid-Tudor England
	4 ‘The Surpassingly Important Prayer Book’
	5 Structure
Chapter 1 Preaching and Common Prayer
	1 Introduction
		1.1 A Culture of Preaching
	2 Certayne Sermons
		2.1 The Strong Rock and Foundation of Christian Religion
		2.2 Opposition
		2.3 This Newly Imagined Speech
		2.4 The Ecclesiological Authority of Sola Scriptura
	3 The Evangelical Function of Preaching
		3.1 The People Must Have Meat
		3.2 Printing Sermons
	4 Liturgical Integration
		4.1 Evangelical Comparison
		4.2 Evangelical Criticism
		4.3 Public Reception
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Sacraments as Practical Ecclesiology
	1 Introduction
	2 A Triangular Conflict
	3 Sacramental Theology
		3.1 The Most Perilous and Most Dangerous Thing
		3.2 The Devilish Heresy
		3.3 Twin Heresies
	4 The Ecclesiology of the Sacraments
		4.1 Sacraments of ‘Friendship, Love, and Concord’
		4.2 Liturgy of Communion
		4.3 Liturgy of Baptism
		4.4 Continuity or Break with the Medieval Past?
	5 A Church of Mixed Congregations
		5.1 True Sacramental Participation
		5.2 Discipline in the Formularies
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Keeping the Sabbath Holy
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Historiographical Debate
	2 The Doctrine of the Sabbath under Henry VIII
		2.1 Lords over the Sabbath
	3 The Doctrine of the Sabbath under Edward VI
		3.1 The Covenantal Sabbath
	4 Formalising Sabbath Worship
		4.1 Keep Holily and Religiously the Sabbath Day
		4.2 Indifferent Things
	5 Post-Edwardian Developments
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Episcopacy and Evangelical Ecclesiology
	1 Introduction
	2 Remodelling the Episcopate
		2.1 Anticlericalism?
		2.2 The Reformed Ordinal of 1550
		2.3 Conservative Reactions to the Revised Ordinal
	3 John Hooper Contra Episcopos?
		3.1 An Offer of a Bishopric
		3.2 The Vestments Controversy
		3.3 Episcopacy Strengthened
	4 John Hooper: Defensor Episcoporum
		4.1 An Oversight in Print
		4.2 Hooper’s Hyperclerical Sermons
	5 John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester
		5.1 A Laborious and Indefatigable Bishop
		5.2 Superintendents of Gloucester and Worcester
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Bishop John Bale and the English Church in Ireland
	1 Introduction
	2 Bale’s Ecclesiology
		2.1 An Afflicted and Sorrowful Congregation
		2.2 Our Realm Now Named England
		2.3 An Elect Vineyard
	3 Bale in Ireland: Extending a National Church?
		3.1 The King’s Ambassador
		3.2 Royal Supremacy
		3.3 Liturgical Reform
		3.4 The Vocation of True Church
	4 Conclusion
Epilogue: Frankfurt, the Final Frontier
Conclusion
Appendix 1 Hooper’s ‘Notes to Council’
	1 The First Mark, or Condition
	2 The Second Mark, or Condition
	3 The Third Mark, or Condition
	4 The Fourth Mark, or Condition
	5 Concerning Vestments
	6 Vestments Lack the Second Mark and Condition of Things Indifferent
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
		Manuscripts
			Cambridge
			London
			Hertfordshire
			Ruthin
		Bibles
	Secondary Sources
Index
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