Reformation in Britain and Ireland

by Felicity Heal

Overview

This is an innovative volume which studies the coming of reform in the sixteenth century more broadly than do traditional national narratives of religious change. It argues for an interactive and comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Through the examination of political choices, of ecclesiastical structures, and of individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in these islands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199280155
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/12/2005
Series:	Oxford History of the Christian Church
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	588
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jesus College

Table of Contents

1. Part 1: The Traditional Order2. The State of the Clergy3. Communities and Beliefs4. Part 2: The Coming of Reformation5. The Clergy in the Years of Change6. Responses to Change: the Laity and the Church7. Part 3: Word and Doctrine8. Theology and Worship9. Part 4: Reformations Established and Contested10. Reforming People and Community: Church, Clergy, and Laity, 1558-1600

Editorial Reviews

"A clear and convincing new interpretation of the Reformations of Britain and Ireland."—Choice

"[Heal] bravely, cautiously, successfully and admirably takes on the major changes (reformation) in the English church that began in the reign of Henry VIII."—Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

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