Jonathan Willis

The Reformation of the Decalogue

Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, C.1485-1625

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, which in turn helped shape the Reformation itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416603
• ISBN-10: 1108416608
• Artikelnr.: 48684857

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Willis is a Reformation historian and Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham. He is author of Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England (2010); editor of Sin and Salvation in Reformation England (2015); and co-editor of Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe (2015) and Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (2016). He is also Director of the University of Birmingham's Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Civil Office of the Law: 1. Law
2. Order
Part II. The Evangelical Office of the Law: 3. Sin
4. Salvation
Part III. The Practical Office of the Law: 5. The godly
6. The 'ungodly'
Conclusion: the Ten Commandments in England, c.1485¿c.1625.