But a "Stage-Play": A Counter-Reformation View of the Marian Church

This essay studies Robert Persons's understanding of the reforms of Mary I of England within the continental discursive context in which he worked. By describing his critiques of Marian reforms together with similar reformist discourses in France and Spain, it is argued that his ideas represent...

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Main Author: Domínguez, Freddy Cristóbal 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 533-551
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Parsons, Robert 1546-1610 / Maria, I., England, Königin 1516-1558 / England / Catholic church / Church reform / Counter-Reformation
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBF British Isles
KDB Roman Catholic Church
SA Church law; state-church law
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Summary:This essay studies Robert Persons's understanding of the reforms of Mary I of England within the continental discursive context in which he worked. By describing his critiques of Marian reforms together with similar reformist discourses in France and Spain, it is argued that his ideas represent a common Counter-Reformation polemical stance and a set of normal Catholic assumptions about the "political" and institutional reforms necessary to combat heresy. Persons's thoughts about the "political" reforms within a broader field of spiritual imperatives serve as a reminder that the Counter-Reformation was necessarily about politics despite scholarly emphasis on issues of theology and religious practice.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046920001463