Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England. By Peter Marshall
It used to be so simple. The history of the Reformation used to read like an Agatha Christie novel. After some careful reflection on the evidence we could sit back and enjoy the fact that we knew who, or what, did it. The Reformation had causes and we knew what they were; the Reformation was easily...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 755-757 |
| Review of: | Religious identities in Henry VIII's England (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2006) (Hoyle, David)
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| Summary: | It used to be so simple. The history of the Reformation used to read like an Agatha Christie novel. After some careful reflection on the evidence we could sit back and enjoy the fact that we knew who, or what, did it. The Reformation had causes and we knew what they were; the Reformation was easily explained. Tyndale, the translator of Scripture, thought it was a story about Scripture and ‘how it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue’. Foxe, the publishing sensation, thought it was all a matter of books and printing: ‘The Lord began to work for his church not with sword and target to subdue his exalted adversary, but with printing, writing and reading. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm042 |