Torrance Kirby
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264683
- eISBN:
- 9780191734878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264683.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter discusses the theological affinity between the Elizabethan church and Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Italian reformer who spent his later career in Zurich. Vermigli’s thought did not simply ...
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This chapter discusses the theological affinity between the Elizabethan church and Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Italian reformer who spent his later career in Zurich. Vermigli’s thought did not simply migrate from the continent to England. The discussion notes that Vermigli’s English experience as an exile was formative for the development of his political theology and that the English monarchy left an imprint on his subsequent Old Testament commentaries on the subject of kingship. Scottish Covenanters and English puritans in the early seventeenth century nonetheless continued to find the work of Zurich reformers useful for refuting episcopacy. If the political theology of Vermigli was agreeable to the Elizabethan church, conformists associated Calvinism with political sedition on the grounds that reformation in Geneva was born out of revolution.Less
This chapter discusses the theological affinity between the Elizabethan church and Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Italian reformer who spent his later career in Zurich. Vermigli’s thought did not simply migrate from the continent to England. The discussion notes that Vermigli’s English experience as an exile was formative for the development of his political theology and that the English monarchy left an imprint on his subsequent Old Testament commentaries on the subject of kingship. Scottish Covenanters and English puritans in the early seventeenth century nonetheless continued to find the work of Zurich reformers useful for refuting episcopacy. If the political theology of Vermigli was agreeable to the Elizabethan church, conformists associated Calvinism with political sedition on the grounds that reformation in Geneva was born out of revolution.
Arnoud S. Q. Visser
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199765935
- eISBN:
- 9780199895168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199765935.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines book ownership and reading practices of individual readers of Augustine in sixteenth-century Europe. Case studies of private libraries in England and monastic collections in ...
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This chapter examines book ownership and reading practices of individual readers of Augustine in sixteenth-century Europe. Case studies of private libraries in England and monastic collections in Italy reveal the reality of Augustine's dissemination to be far messier than a chronological account of the printing history would suggest. Manuscript reading marks in individual copies confirm the lively variety of ways in which Augustine was read, ranging from pragmatic underlining to emotional responses. These individual reading styles enabled readers to use the same texts for different ends, as is shown in a case study of three formative English theologians, Thomas Cranmer, Peter Martyr Vermigli and William Laud. Their techniques of classifying or historicizing quotations illuminate how readers, regardless of the aims of authors and editors, often pursued their own approach to Augustine in search of confirmation of their religious perspective.Less
This chapter examines book ownership and reading practices of individual readers of Augustine in sixteenth-century Europe. Case studies of private libraries in England and monastic collections in Italy reveal the reality of Augustine's dissemination to be far messier than a chronological account of the printing history would suggest. Manuscript reading marks in individual copies confirm the lively variety of ways in which Augustine was read, ranging from pragmatic underlining to emotional responses. These individual reading styles enabled readers to use the same texts for different ends, as is shown in a case study of three formative English theologians, Thomas Cranmer, Peter Martyr Vermigli and William Laud. Their techniques of classifying or historicizing quotations illuminate how readers, regardless of the aims of authors and editors, often pursued their own approach to Augustine in search of confirmation of their religious perspective.
Richard Cross
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198846970
- eISBN:
- 9780191881923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198846970.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter describes the changes Brenz made to his Christology in 1562 and 1564 in response to Peter Martyr Vermigli’s defence of the supposital union. It shows how Jakob Andreae, Brenz’s follower, ...
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This chapter describes the changes Brenz made to his Christology in 1562 and 1564 in response to Peter Martyr Vermigli’s defence of the supposital union. It shows how Jakob Andreae, Brenz’s follower, further adapted Brenz’s views and attempted to defend them against a variety of Reformed responses, found in Theodore Beza and Heinrich Bullinger, and in the discussions at the Colloquy of Maulbronn (1564). In distinction from Brenz, Andreae reduces the human nature’s possession of divine powers merely to the activity of the relevant powers in the human nature, construed as an instrument of the divine person.Less
This chapter describes the changes Brenz made to his Christology in 1562 and 1564 in response to Peter Martyr Vermigli’s defence of the supposital union. It shows how Jakob Andreae, Brenz’s follower, further adapted Brenz’s views and attempted to defend them against a variety of Reformed responses, found in Theodore Beza and Heinrich Bullinger, and in the discussions at the Colloquy of Maulbronn (1564). In distinction from Brenz, Andreae reduces the human nature’s possession of divine powers merely to the activity of the relevant powers in the human nature, construed as an instrument of the divine person.
Kirk M. Summers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190280079
- eISBN:
- 9780190280093
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280079.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines Beza’s defense of the execution of Susanne Fontaine, an adulterer at Geneva, and his disgust at the handling of the punishment of one of her partners, Jean Sarasin. At issue is ...
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This chapter examines Beza’s defense of the execution of Susanne Fontaine, an adulterer at Geneva, and his disgust at the handling of the punishment of one of her partners, Jean Sarasin. At issue is the legitimacy of a 1566 edict dealing with adulterers and prostitutes. Beza and the Company of Pastors call the edict a grand treasure that protects Geneva from confusion and disorder, since both adultery and fornication weaken the pillars of a godly society. Two poems of the Cato illustrate Beza’s view of the destructive potential for sexual sins. The chapter includes a discussion on the introduction of divorce at Geneva under Calvin’s leadership and examines Beza’s views on the matter as presented in his treatise On separation and divorce. It reviews Lambert Daneau’s detailed exposition of sexual sins in his Ethices Christianae and summarizes the position set forth by Peter Martyr Vermigli in his commentary on Samuel.Less
This chapter examines Beza’s defense of the execution of Susanne Fontaine, an adulterer at Geneva, and his disgust at the handling of the punishment of one of her partners, Jean Sarasin. At issue is the legitimacy of a 1566 edict dealing with adulterers and prostitutes. Beza and the Company of Pastors call the edict a grand treasure that protects Geneva from confusion and disorder, since both adultery and fornication weaken the pillars of a godly society. Two poems of the Cato illustrate Beza’s view of the destructive potential for sexual sins. The chapter includes a discussion on the introduction of divorce at Geneva under Calvin’s leadership and examines Beza’s views on the matter as presented in his treatise On separation and divorce. It reviews Lambert Daneau’s detailed exposition of sexual sins in his Ethices Christianae and summarizes the position set forth by Peter Martyr Vermigli in his commentary on Samuel.