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Book SynopsisBrings together scholars from several disciplines in Reformation studies to examine the life, work, and enduring significance of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury from 1560 to 1571.
Trade Review“Although John Jewel was an influential figure in the English church, relatively little else has been written about him. Gary W. Jenkins’s 2006 biography provided an important update of J. E. Booty’s 1963 work, but otherwise John Jewel’s significance in the post-Reformation church has been largely ignored. This collection of essays, which grew out of a conference in 2014 marking the 450th anniversary of the publication of Jewel’s Apology for the Church of England, provides a remedy to that.”
—Rosamund Oates Cambridge Journal of British Studies
“Historians, literary scholars, and researchers in religious studies will treasure this publication for how clearly it shows Jewel’s connections to diverse thinkers of his time and the generations following, all concerned with articulating the truth of Christianity even when much was in dispute.”
—Janice Liedl Renaissance and Reformation
“An enjoyably erudite pathway into the world of John Jewel, which will only leave the reader longing for a more in-depth engagement with the central subject himself.”
—Lee Gatiss Reading Religion
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: John Jewel and the Invention of the Church in England
Lucy Woodring
1. John Jewel’s Early Life: Developing a Community of Reformers
Angela Ranson
Part I: John Jewel as Theologian, Polemicist, and Apologist
2. The Homiletical Theologian: Jewel’s Self-Identity as Preacher of the Word
André A. Gazal
3. John Jewel at Paul’s Cross: A Culture of Persuasion and England’s Emerging Public Sphere
Torrance Kirby
4. “Silence Is a Fine Jewel for a Woman”: Anne Cooke Bacon, Jewel’s Apology, and Reformed Women’s Publications
Alice Ferron
5. “A Crime So Heinous”: The Concept of Heresy in John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of England
André A. Gazal
6. An Apology of the Church of England’s Cathedrals
Ian Atherton
7. The Jewel-Harding Controversy: Defending the Champion
Angela Ranson
8. Defending the Defender of the Faith: The Use of History in Responses to Queen Elizabeth’s Excommunication
Aislinn Muller
Part II: The Impact and Legacy of John Jewel
9. Moses the Magistrate: The Mosaic Theological Imaginaries of John Jewel and Richard Hooker in Elizabethan Apologetics
Paul Dominiak
10. The Use and Abuse of John Jewel in Richard Hooker’s Defense of the English Church
W. Bradford Littlejohn
11. Redefining Unity in the Jacobean Church: The Legacy of John Jewel
Angela Ranson
12. Edwin Sandys and the Defense of the Faith
Sarah Bastow
13. Defense, Dialectic, and Dialogue: The Role of the Antagonist in the English Church
Joshua Rodda
14. A Multifaceted Jewel: English Episcopacy, Ignatian Authenticity, and the Rise of Critical Patristic Scholarship
Paul A. Hartog
15. Defending Reformation Anglicanism: The Bishop Jewel Society at Oxford University, 1947-1975
Andrew Atherstone
Appendix: The Publications of the Jewel-Harding Controversy, 1560-1640
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
