The origins of Anglican moral theology
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Woo pursues in detail the several editions of Calvin’s Quatre sermons. For Calvin, exile was of greater value than martyrdom because the hardships involved were blessed by God as a spiritual pilgrimage. Therefore, all of the Protestants who had stayed in England during Mary’s reign, including Sir William Cecil, the future archbishop Matthew Parker, and Elizabeth herself, were unworthy temporizers. As Pettegree noted, the Elizabethan Settlement was a Nicodemite Reformation. Woo is less interested in Nicodemites as people who had genuinely difficult choices to make. Rather, the intellectual idea of the Nicodemite is here paramount. In Elizabeth’s reign, the figure of the hidden Nicodemite, who was incapable of responding, was a convenient figure to attack for many different purposes. Woo might have spent more time exploring why Calvin became essential reading for theologians in mid-Elizabethan England. A valuable conclusion to draw from his book and Overell’s is that as a concept, Nicodemism offered almost unlimited possibilities for the denunciation of enemies, real or imagined.
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