Nicodemism and the English Calvin, 1544-1584

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In Nicodemism and the English Calvin Kenneth J. Woo offers an account of diversity in John Calvin's polemical writings against Nicodemism, demonstrating how the Genevan reformer's strategic approach influenced reception of his work in diverse contexts during the English Reformation. Nicodemism and the English Calvin, 1544-1584 Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Calvin Against the Nicodemites .. Again? 1 Calvin's Approach to Nicodemism in Recent Scholarship 1.1 Advancing the Question: Reassessment and Reception 2 The Curious Case of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemite Sermons 2.1 Approaching the Reception History of Quatre Sermons 2.2 Sources 2.3 Ways of Reading 3 Eclipsing the Nicodemite: Quatre Sermons in Diverse Contexts 1 Exile as Apology: Quatre Sermons and the Diverse Goals of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism 1 Theological and Audience Diversity in Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism* 2 Quatre Sermons as Argument for Exile 2.1 Against Idolatry: The Stable Core of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism 2.2 Church in Exile: The Ecclesiological Turn in Quatre Sermons 2.3 Calvin's Preface 2.4 Exile as Nurture: Calvin's use of the Psalms in Quatre Sermons 2.5 Exile as Preferred Course: Calvin's Arrangement of Quatre Sermons 3 Quatre Sermons as Personal Apology for Calvin 3.1 The Conflicts in Geneva as Context for Quatre Sermons 3.2 Flexibility of Address: The Two Audiences of Quatre Sermons 4 Conclusion 2 The Religious Context of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism in England 1 Fresh Translations, Changing Contexts 2 Situating Marian and Elizabethan Anti-Nicodemism: English Traditions and Continental Sources 3 Anti-Nicodemism and the Marian Exiles 3.1 Patience and Perseverance in Open Confession 3.2 Nicodemism as a Quintessentially Roman Defect 4 Anti-Nicodemism in the Elizabethan Era 5 Conclusion: Imagining a Flexible Foe 3 Unintended Consequences: Quatre Sermons in England-The Translations of 1561, 1581, and 1584 1 The English Reception of Calvin and Quatre Sermons 2 Baduel's Latin Translation 3 Rowland Hall's 1561 Edition: Calvin as Model for English Preachers 4 Robert Waldegrave's 1581 Edition: In Defense of Protestant Martyrdom 5 Anthony Munday's 1584 Edition: Establishing a Protestant Pedigree 6 Conclusion 4 A Justification of Flight: Robert Horne's 1553 Translation 1 Situating Horne's Translation: Background and Context 2 Career Reformer: Exile, Return, and the Making of a Principled Conformist 2.1 From Fugitive to Bishop 2.2 The Zurich Letters 2.3 From "Rome" via Wesel: English Protestant Printing under Mary i 3 Selective Silence: Horne's Use of Calvin 4 Horne's Preface 5 Horne's Translation 6 Horne's Strategy 7 Conclusion 5 A Subtler Admonition: John Field's Anti-Nicodemism 1 Situating Field's Translation: Background and Context 1.1 An Admonition to the Parliament (1572) 1.2 Field's Translations and Prefaces, 1577-1583 1.3 John Field and the English Reception of Calvin 2 Field's Preface 3 Field's Translation 4 Field's Strategy 4.1 1579: Field's Year of French Translation 4.2 The Papal Menace in Field's Translation of Mornay 4.3 Thirteene Sermons: "Merite Mongers" and the Threat of Disorder 4.4 Foure Sermons: Nicodemites as Moderates in the Elizabethan Church 5 Conclusion Conclusion The Story of Quatre Sermons in England (and Geneva) 1 Nicodemism and the English Calvin: A Case of Mistaken Identity? Appendix on Terminology Bibliography Index