John Jewel and the English National Church: The Dilemmas of an Erastian Reformer

by Gary W. Jenkins

John Jewel (1522-1571) has long been regarded as one of the key figures in the shaping of the Anglican Church. A Marian exile, he returned to England upon the accession of Elizabeth I, and was appointed bishop of Salisbury in 1560 and wrote his famous Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae two years later. The most recent monographs on Jewel, now over forty years old, focus largely on his theology, casting him as deft scholar, adept humanist, precursor to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754635856
• ISBN13: 9780754635857
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages