Reformation of the commonwealth. Thomas Becon and the politics of evangelical change in Tudor England. By Brian L. Hanson. (Reformed Historical Theology, 58.) Pp. 250 incl. 15 tables. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Reprecht, 2019. €90. 978 3 525 55454 8; 2198 8226

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-662
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Tudor England ◽  
Historical Theology

The Date of the Muratorian Fragment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-172
Author(s):  
John F. Lingelbach
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
First Time ◽  
Objective Methodology

Three hundred years after its discovery, scholars find themselves unable to determine the more likely of the two hypotheses regarding the date of the Muratorian Fragment, which consists of a catalog of New Testament texts. Is the Fragment a late second- to early third-century composition or a fourth-century composition? This present work seeks to break the impasse. The study found that, by making an inference to the best explanation, a second-century date for the Fragment is preferred. This methodology consists of weighing the two hypotheses against five criteria: plausibility, explanatory scope, explanatory power, credibility, and simplicity. What makes this current work unique in its contribution to church history and historical theology is that it marks the first time the rigorous application of an objective methodology, known as “inference to the best explanation” (or IBE), has been formally applied to the problem of the Fragment’s date.

Edward VI's ‘speciall men’: crown and locality in mid Tudor England

2008 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 080228061427284-???
Author(s):  
Alan Bryson
Keyword(s):  
Tudor England

Humanism and the Social Order in Tudor England. Fritz Caspari

1956 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
Wallace T. MacCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
The Social

The Lost Works of Thomas Becon

The Library ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-497
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Early Publication ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Literary Output

Abstract This article attributes four lost works to the literary corpus of the English clergyman and bestselling Tudor devotional author Thomas Becon (1512–1567): The Shelde of Saluacion, An Heauenly Acte, Christen Prayers and Godly Meditacions, and The Resurreccion of the Masse. It ascribes these texts to Becon in light of three types of corroborating evidence: contemporary attribution, parallels of content, and early publication history. These four lost works not only furnish a fuller picture of his literary output, but also provide new insights into his career, rhetoric, and theology. As Becon was the most popular evangelical devotional author writing in English during the sixteenth century, this analysis of his hitherto unattributed books makes a valuable contribution to the bibliography of Tudor England, especially during the transformative years of the Henrician, Edwardine, Marian, and Elizabethan Reformations.

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