Memory and the English Reformation

Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108829996

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Broken Idols of the English Reformation

Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Author: Margaret Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1994
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316060470

Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.

The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology

The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology
Author: Paul T. Nimmo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107027225

This Companion offers an introduction to Reformed theology, one of the most historically important, ecumenically active, and currently generative traditions of doctrinal enquiry, by way of reflecting upon its origins, its development, and its significance. The first part, Theological Topics, indicates the distinct array of doctrinal concerns which gives coherence over time to the identity of this tradition in all its diversity. The second part, Theological Figures, explores the life and work of a small number of theologians who have not only worked within this tradition, but have constructively shaped and inspired it in vital ways. The final part, Theological Contexts, considers the ways in which the resultant Reformed sensibilities in theology have had a marked impact both upon theological and ecclesiastical landscapes in different places and upon the wider societal landscapes of history. The result is a fascinating and compelling guide to this dynamic and vibrant theological tradition.

English Reformations

English Reformations
Author: Christopher Haigh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 381
Release: 1993
Genre: England
ISBN: 0198221622

English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explorethe religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Dr Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenthcentury as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of earlier religious changes. This is a scholarly and stimulating book, which challenges traditional ideas about the Reformation and offers a powerful and convincing alternative analysis.