Building the Church of England: The Book of Common Prayer and the Edwardian Reformation (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

Front Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 12 Abbreviations 14 Note on the Text 18 Introduction: A Holy Church Unknown to the World 20 1 An Ecclesiological Paradox 20 2 The Marks of the True Church 24 3 Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in Mid-Tudor England 27 4 ‘The Surpassingly Important Prayer Book’ 30 5 Structure 37 Chapter 1 Preaching and Common Prayer 41 1 Introduction 41 1.1 A Culture of Preaching 42 2 Certayne Sermons 45 2.1 The Strong Rock and Foundation of Christian Religion 45 2.2 Opposition 50 2.3 This Newly Imagined Speech 54 2.4 The Ecclesiological Authority of Sola Scriptura 59 3 The Evangelical Function of Preaching 66 3.1 The People Must Have Meat 66 3.2 Printing Sermons 69 4 Liturgical Integration 73 4.1 Evangelical Comparison 77 4.2 Evangelical Criticism 79 4.3 Public Reception 81 5 Conclusion 85 Chapter 2 Sacraments as Practical Ecclesiology 87 1 Introduction 87 2 A Triangular Conflict 90 3 Sacramental Theology 95 3.1 The Most Perilous and Most Dangerous Thing 95 3.2 The Devilish Heresy 99 3.3 Twin Heresies 102 4 The Ecclesiology of the Sacraments 107 4.1 Sacraments of ‘Friendship, Love, and Concord’ 107 4.2 Liturgy of Communion 112 4.3 Liturgy of Baptism 114 4.4 Continuity or Break with the Medieval Past? 117 5 A Church of Mixed Congregations 119 5.1 True Sacramental Participation 119 5.2 Discipline in the Formularies 122 6 Conclusion 126 Chapter 3 Keeping the Sabbath Holy 129 1 Introduction 129 1.1 Historiographical Debate 130 2 The Doctrine of the Sabbath under Henry VIII 133 2.1 Lords over the Sabbath 133 3 The Doctrine of the Sabbath under Edward VI 138 3.1 The Covenantal Sabbath 138 4 Formalising Sabbath Worship 145 4.1 Keep Holily and Religiously the Sabbath Day 145 4.2 Indifferent Things 147 5 Post-Edwardian Developments 152 6 Conclusion 156 Chapter 4 Episcopacy and Evangelical Ecclesiology 158 1 Introduction 158 2 Remodelling the Episcopate 160 2.1 Anticlericalism? 160 2.2 The Reformed Ordinal of 1550 162 2.3 Conservative Reactions to the Revised Ordinal 168 3 John Hooper Contra Episcopos? 173 3.1 An Offer of a Bishopric 174 3.2 The Vestments Controversy 178 3.3 Episcopacy Strengthened 181 4 John Hooper: Defensor Episcoporum 185 4.1 An Oversight in Print 185 4.2 Hooper’s Hyperclerical Sermons 187 5 John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester 194 5.1 A Laborious and Indefatigable Bishop 194 5.2 Superintendents of Gloucester and Worcester 198 6 Conclusion 201 Chapter 5 Bishop John Bale and the English Church in Ireland 204 1 Introduction 204 2 Bale’s Ecclesiology 207 2.1 An Afflicted and Sorrowful Congregation 208 2.2 Our Realm Now Named England 215 2.3 An Elect Vineyard 222 3 Bale in Ireland: Extending a National Church? 226 3.1 The King’s Ambassador 226 3.2 Royal Supremacy 231 3.3 Liturgical Reform 236 3.4 The Vocation of True Church 238 4 Conclusion 242 Epilogue: Frankfurt, the Final Frontier 245 Conclusion 261 Appendix 1 Hooper’s ‘Notes to Council’ 268 1 The First Mark, or Condition 268 2 The Second Mark, or Condition 268 3 The Third Mark, or Condition 269 4 The Fourth Mark, or Condition 269 5 Concerning Vestments 270 6 Vestments Lack the Second Mark and Condition of Things Indifferent 271 Bibliography 272 Primary Sources 272 Manuscripts 272 Cambridge 272 London 272 Hertfordshire 272 Ruthin 272 Bibles 272 Printed 273 Secondary Sources 280 Index 302 Back Cover 306