John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church

John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V. Norskov Olsen offers a deeply researched study of one of the most influential figures of the English Reformation. Foxe, best known for his monumental Acts and Monuments (popularly called the Book of Martyrs), has long been seen as a martyrologist and historian. Olsen goes further, presenting Foxe as a theologian whose ecclesiology shaped both Elizabethan religious identity and subsequent Protestant self-understanding. By tracing Foxe’s engagement w...