English Evangelicals and Tudor Obedience, c.1527–1570

Ryan M. Reeves, PhD (2011), University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Dean of the Jacksonville Campus.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. ‘Ye Gods’: Political Obedience from Tyndale to Cromwell, c.1528–15402. English Evangelicals, Persecution, and Obedience, 1540–15473. Henrician Rhetoric and Godly Josiah: Obedience and Edward VI (1547–1553)4. ‘That Outrageous Pamphlet’: Obedience and Resistance, c.1553–15585. ‘If the Prince Shall Forbid’: Divisions over Evangelical Obedience in the 1560sConclusionBibliographyIndex

"This book proposes an important revision of the traditional understanding of the theology of political obedience within the nascent English Protestant tradition […] This is a significant contribution to our understanding of Early English Protenstantism."David Carter, Princeton University. In: Revue D’Histoire Ecclésiastique."Reeves’s splendid study shows there is ‘no evidence of a division between English and Reformed Protestants on the issue of obedience prior to the late 1550s’ (p. 198) and that ‘in Tudor England, one could be thoroughly committed to obedience and be nevertheless ardently Protestant’."Donald K. McKim in The Journal of Theological Studies, 2014."Eminently readable". Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti, Université de Lille. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vl. 68, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 626-628.