Government by Polemic: James I, the King’s Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625Stanford University Press, 1998 - 231 Seiten This book is a study of the Anglican Church in the Jacobean period, a time of central importance in English religious and political history. By looking at official words instead of official deeds, the author challenges the recent revisionist position, made by both Anglican apologists and historians, that the reign of James I was an era of religious consensus and political moderation. Analyzing sermons preached and then ordered into print by the king, the book demonstrates that the Jacobean claim to "moderation" and the pursuit of a so-called via media were rhetorical strategies aimed at isolating Elizabethan-style Calvinist reformers and alienating their supporters. Utilizing sources drawn from history, literature, and religion, this interdisciplinary work combines rhetorical and historical analysis in discussing the major religious and political issues of the period: the union with Scotland, the Gunpowder Plot, the Oath of Allegiance controversy, and the forceful elaboration of anti-Puritanism and ceremonialism in the Church of England. Throughout, the author presents evidence for her claim that the discourse of government is the substance of government. |
Inhalt
Two Churches or One? The Accession | 27 |
The Fifth of November | 64 |
Great Britains Constantine | 113 |
Kneeling and the Body Politic | 140 |
The Politics of Memory | 167 |
Notes | 179 |
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227 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accession adiaphoric Andrewes's anti-Calvinist anti-Puritan argument Arminianism authority avant-garde Bancroft Barlow BASILIKON DORON bishops called Calvinist Calvinist consensus Cambridge campaign Catholicism ceremonies Christian Church of England claim clergy conformist conformity context controversy court preachers court pulpit court sermons cultural dangerous debate discourse doctrine domestic Early Stuart Church Ecclesiastical Policies Elizabethan English Church English Civil War Episcopacy episcopate Fincham and Lake formalist Fotherby Gowry sermon Gunpowder Plot Hampton Court conference historians Ibid issues Jacobean court James VI James's reign Jesuit King James king's kingdoms Kirk kneeling Lancelot Andrewes language Laudian liturgy London Majesty Maxey moderate Puritans monarch Morrill nonconformists nonconformity Oxford papists Parliament Paul's Cross Paul's Cross Sermons Policies of James political popery prayer presbyterian Protestant Protestantism religion religious settlement rhetoric Richard Bancroft royal supremacy Scotland Scots Scottish secular Sermon Preached significant sigs speech style theological tion transformed treason Tyacke unity words worship