Analyzing a variety of literature-including religious polemic, dialogue, pamphlets, sermons, and treatises-Melissa Caldwell argues that a skeptical mode of thinking is embedded in the literary and rhetorical choices made by English writers who straddle the project of reform and the maintenance of orthodoxy after the Reformation in England. Far from being a radical belief simply indicative of an emerging secularism, she demonstrates that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion.
Analyzing a variety of literature-including religious polemic, dialogue, pamphlets, sermons, and treatises-Melissa Caldwell argues that a skeptical mode of thinking is embedded in the literary and rhetorical choices made by English writers who straddle the project of reform and the maintenance of orthodoxy after the Reformation in England. Far from being a radical belief simply indicative of an emerging secularism, she demonstrates that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion.
Melissa M. Caldwell is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Eastern Illinois University, USA.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Skepticism, Belief, and the English Church I. The Value of Uncertainty in Reformation England II. The Histories of Early Modern Skepticism III. Reclaiming Polemical Literature for the History of Ethics Chapter 1: Skeptical Polemics?: Erasmian Reform and the Development of Early Tudor Skepticism I. Criterions of Judgment Before the Reformation II. Equity, the Third Stoic Paradox, and Emerging Theories of Reform in Utopia III. The Skeptical Discourses of Reform in the 1520s IV. Reform and the Uncertain Uses of Fiction Chapter 2: Print, Probability, and the Changing Nature of Religious Belief in the 1520s I. Print and the Changing Nature of Belief II. More's Textual Skepticism and the Destabilizing Fictions of the Printed Word III. Normative Fiction and the Assurance of Probability IV. Print Culture and the Simulation of Consensus Chapter 3: Richard Hooker and the Value of Doubt in Post-Reformation Ethics I. The Elizabethan Church and Post-Reformation Ethics II. Doubt, Adiaphora, and Hooker's Attack on Sola Scriptura III. Galen, Contrariety, and Methods of Reform IV. Hooker's Skeptical Method of Reform V. Schism, Pragmatism, and the Emergence of Atheism Chapter 4: Thomas Nashe, Atheism, and the Problem of Literacy I. Nashe and the Histories of Skepticism II. The Preface to Astrophil and Stella, Print, and Nashe's Writer III. Misreading Nature: Plain Dealing and the Breakdown of Analogical Thinking in Christs Teares IV. Atheism and Elizabethan Policy V. Moral Reform and the Limits of Skepticism Chapter 5: Native Ears: John Donne and the Reformed Audience I. The Art of Hearing and the Clouds of Fallibility II. "Conversion" and the Challenge of Conformity for the Ministry III. The Sermon and its After-Effects: Skepticism and Personal Devotion IV. The Epistemology of Conversion Chapter 6: Skepticism, Toleration, and Moral Action on the Eve of the English Civil War I. Redefining Adiaphora II. The Artificial Peace of Forced Conformity III. Lord Brooke, Adiaphora, and the Rationalist's Rebellion IV. Replacing the Moral Guidance of Adiaphora: Miltonic Discipline and Style V. The Language of Religious Toleration and the Language of Moral Action Conclusion: English Skepticism and the History of Skepticism
Table of Contents Introduction: Skepticism, Belief, and the English Church I. The Value of Uncertainty in Reformation England II. The Histories of Early Modern Skepticism III. Reclaiming Polemical Literature for the History of Ethics Chapter 1: Skeptical Polemics?: Erasmian Reform and the Development of Early Tudor Skepticism I. Criterions of Judgment Before the Reformation II. Equity, the Third Stoic Paradox, and Emerging Theories of Reform in Utopia III. The Skeptical Discourses of Reform in the 1520s IV. Reform and the Uncertain Uses of Fiction Chapter 2: Print, Probability, and the Changing Nature of Religious Belief in the 1520s I. Print and the Changing Nature of Belief II. More's Textual Skepticism and the Destabilizing Fictions of the Printed Word III. Normative Fiction and the Assurance of Probability IV. Print Culture and the Simulation of Consensus Chapter 3: Richard Hooker and the Value of Doubt in Post-Reformation Ethics I. The Elizabethan Church and Post-Reformation Ethics II. Doubt, Adiaphora, and Hooker's Attack on Sola Scriptura III. Galen, Contrariety, and Methods of Reform IV. Hooker's Skeptical Method of Reform V. Schism, Pragmatism, and the Emergence of Atheism Chapter 4: Thomas Nashe, Atheism, and the Problem of Literacy I. Nashe and the Histories of Skepticism II. The Preface to Astrophil and Stella, Print, and Nashe's Writer III. Misreading Nature: Plain Dealing and the Breakdown of Analogical Thinking in Christs Teares IV. Atheism and Elizabethan Policy V. Moral Reform and the Limits of Skepticism Chapter 5: Native Ears: John Donne and the Reformed Audience I. The Art of Hearing and the Clouds of Fallibility II. "Conversion" and the Challenge of Conformity for the Ministry III. The Sermon and its After-Effects: Skepticism and Personal Devotion IV. The Epistemology of Conversion Chapter 6: Skepticism, Toleration, and Moral Action on the Eve of the English Civil War I. Redefining Adiaphora II. The Artificial Peace of Forced Conformity III. Lord Brooke, Adiaphora, and the Rationalist's Rebellion IV. Replacing the Moral Guidance of Adiaphora: Miltonic Discipline and Style V. The Language of Religious Toleration and the Language of Moral Action Conclusion: English Skepticism and the History of Skepticism
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