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The Taming of Reformation: Preachers, Pastors and Parishioners in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Author(s) -
Haigh Christopher
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1468-229X
pISSN - 0018-2648
DOI - 10.1111/1468-229x.00164
Subject(s) - nonconformity , bishops , predestination , resistance (ecology) , doctrine , conformist , calvinism , law , archbishop , english reformation , heresy , history , sociology , theology , religious studies , classics , political science , philosophy , protestantism , management , economics , ecology , politics , biology
Many of the godly preachers of late Elizabethan England encountered resistance from their parishioners. There were often objections to their divisiveness, to their preaching of predestination, and to their liturgical nonconformity. This article argues that parochial responses prompted some clergy to adjust their strategies, and encouraged younger ministers to adopt new ways. A more comprehensive pastorate, a proto‐Arminian doctrine of justification, and a more ceremonialist approach to services resulted. The Calvinist Reformation was contained and domesticated by consumer resistance as much as by conformist bishops and Arminianizing theologians. The people had their say too.