Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation
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Author_Helen L. Parish
canon law England
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celibacy
clergy
Clerical Celibacy
Clerical Immorality
Clerical Marriage
Compulsory Clerical Celibacy
Concubinary Priest
Early English Reformation
early modern clergy
ecclesiastical history
Edwardian Reformation
English Reformation clerical marriage debate
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Eucharistic Theology
Evangelical Polemicists
Evangelical Writers
False Church
Ful Fil
Gregory VII
Henrician Church
Holy Men
Luther's Marriage
Marian Church
married
Married Clergy
Married Priests
Paul III
polemical discourse
priests
Protestant Polemicists
Reformation Polemic
theological controversy
Tudor religious reform
Tyndale's Argument
Unchaste Priest
Unwritten Verities
Product details
- ISBN 9780754600381
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume is an examination of the debate over clerical marriage in Reformation polemic, and of its impact on the English clergy in the second half of the sixteenth century. Clerical celibacy was more than an abstract theological concept; it was a central image of mediaeval Catholicism which was shattered by the doctrinal iconoclasm of Protestant reformers. This study sets the debate over clerical marriage within the context of the key debates of the Reformation, offering insights into the nature of the reformers’ attempts to break with the Catholic past, and illustrating the relationship between English polemicists and their continental counterparts. The debate was not without practical consequences, and the author sets this study of polemical arguments alongside an analysis of the response of clergy in several English dioceses to the legalisation of clerical marriage in 1549. Conclusions are based upon the evidence of wills, visitation records, and the proceedings of the ecclesiastical courts. Despite the printed rhetoric, dogmatic certainties were often beyond the reach of the majority, and the author’s conclusions highlight the chasm which could exist between polemical ideal and practical reality during the turmoil of the Reformation.
Helen L. Parish, University of Reading, UK
