Calvin on Divine Authority and Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos
Despite the failure of Mutabilitie's appeal against Jove, she remains for some recent critics an admirable figure, and the Cantos remain unresolved. But in the light of Calvin's treatment of civil government the Mutabilitie Cantos cohere as a poetic adumbration of what Calvin prescribed as...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2023, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-15 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Edmund Spenser
B John Calvin B Mutabilitie Cantos |
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| Summary: | Despite the failure of Mutabilitie's appeal against Jove, she remains for some recent critics an admirable figure, and the Cantos remain unresolved. But in the light of Calvin's treatment of civil government the Mutabilitie Cantos cohere as a poetic adumbration of what Calvin prescribed as obedience to the "powers that be"; powers, however wicked, requiring the obedience due to God. Spenser echoes the vocabulary of Calvin's biblical sources, while insisting on the principle of delegation which links mortal magistrates to God. God is figured as Nature; Creation is designed to inspire faith. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2023.0000 |