Milton, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-0696-1905 (2018) A missing dimension of European influence on English Protestantism: The Heidelberg Catechism and the Church of England, 1563-1663. Reformation and Renaissance Review, 20 (3). pp. 235-248. ISSN 1462-2459
Abstract
While historians of the early-modern Church of England have become familiar with the influence exerted upon it by Genevan and Zurich theologians, the impact of Heidelberg University and the Rhineland Palatinate was arguably equally important and has hitherto been neglected. That influence is charted here through the impact of the Heidelberg Catechism and the commentaries upon it by the Heidelberg divines Jeremias Bastingius and especially Zacharias Ursinus. While these were almost ubiquitous in the late-Elizabethan and Jacobean churches, Heidelberg divinity nevertheless came increasingly to be viewed with suspicion by churchmen under Charles I because of its alleged (and not entirely illusory) links to puritanism. It is argued here that with the creation of the Westminster Greater and Lesser Catechisms, the Heidelberg Catechism and commentaries on it no longer served a useful purpose even for puritans, and that later churchmen were unfamiliar with the influence that it had exerted in the recent past.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Reformation and Renaissance Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Church of England; Heidelberg Catechism; Zacharias Ursinus; Rhineland Palatinate; Reformed Theology |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2018 09:54 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2024 13:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14622459.2018.1530672 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136390 |