RT Article
T1 Prophesying Again
JF Church history
VO 68
IS 2
SP 337
OP 358
A1 Kaufman, Peter Iver
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779582749
AB We know relatively little about prophecies or “exercises” that early Elizabethan reformers devised as in-service training. Nearly all textbooks report that Archbishop Grindal objected to government orders that prophesying be suppressed, for, in 1576, his reservations cost him the queen's and regime's confidence. Yet the suppressed exercises have lately been depicted as tame Elizabethan adaptations of continental practices that featured sermons delivered publicly but discussed only clerically. That was so in Zurich, Emden, and elsewhere, but I think that if we look at prophesying again, look, that is, at what the critics, patrons, and partisans said about the exercises in England, we will discover that lay involvement and initiative were just as subversive and disruptive as some thought at the time.
DO 10.2307/3170860