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Reformed Government - Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Late Elizabethan England (Hardcover)
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Reformed Government - Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Late Elizabethan England (Hardcover)
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The culmination of cultural and literary achievements in the final
decade of Elizabeth I's reign coincided with some of Tudor
England's worst years economically which were exacerbated by
plague, successive harvest failure, and belligerence at home and
abroad. This critical edition of the scribal publication 'Reformed
Government' c. 1594 provides a unique point of entry into the
1590s. Recovering a pivotal moment in the history of puritan
radicalism, it represents the most extensive reformed response to
the onslaught of anti-puritan literature in the late sixteenth
century, including Richard Hooker's iLaws of Ecclesiastical
Polityr. In addition to mounting an epistemological and
ecclesiastical defence of reformed presbyterian government, it
sheds light on new appropriations of Renaissance ideas about
historical contingency, and introduces a dynamic reading of
Christian antiquity. The edition also provides a wider context for
later developments in the seventeenth century. Exploiting the
instability of the period, the 'Reformed Government' seized the
opportunity to re-imagine society and even anticipated the idea of
altering civil and religious constitutions which theorists later
developed in Revolutionary Britain. By expanding and reconfiguring
the relationship between civil and ecclesiastical government, it
imaginatively stretched the implications of historical change to
entertain new possibilities. This recovery of an alternative vision
of a reformed society in the late sixteenth century offers an
alternative model for reading church history. Based on maximal
visions and proposals of reform, the 'Reformed Government' is
essential reading for the study of ecclesiastical tradition
alongside confessional documents and summative statements.
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