Nicodemism and the English Calvin, 1544-1584
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction Calvin Against the Nicodemites .. Again?
1 Calvin's Approach to Nicodemism in Recent Scholarship
1.1 Advancing the Question: Reassessment and Reception
2 The Curious Case of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemite Sermons
2.1 Approaching the Reception History of Quatre Sermons
2.2 Sources
2.3 Ways of Reading
3 Eclipsing the Nicodemite: Quatre Sermons in Diverse Contexts
1 Exile as Apology: Quatre Sermons and the Diverse Goals of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism
1 Theological and Audience Diversity in Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism*
2 Quatre Sermons as Argument for Exile
2.1 Against Idolatry: The Stable Core of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism
2.2 Church in Exile: The Ecclesiological Turn in Quatre Sermons
2.3 Calvin's Preface
2.4 Exile as Nurture: Calvin's use of the Psalms in Quatre Sermons
2.5 Exile as Preferred Course: Calvin's Arrangement of Quatre Sermons
3 Quatre Sermons as Personal Apology for Calvin
3.1 The Conflicts in Geneva as Context for Quatre Sermons
3.2 Flexibility of Address: The Two Audiences of Quatre Sermons
4 Conclusion
2 The Religious Context of Calvin's Anti-Nicodemism in England
1 Fresh Translations, Changing Contexts
2 Situating Marian and Elizabethan Anti-Nicodemism: English Traditions and Continental Sources
3 Anti-Nicodemism and the Marian Exiles
3.1 Patience and Perseverance in Open Confession
3.2 Nicodemism as a Quintessentially Roman Defect
4 Anti-Nicodemism in the Elizabethan Era
5 Conclusion: Imagining a Flexible Foe
3 Unintended Consequences: Quatre Sermons in England-The Translations of 1561, 1581, and 1584
1 The English Reception of Calvin and Quatre Sermons
2 Baduel's Latin Translation
3 Rowland Hall's 1561 Edition: Calvin as Model for English Preachers
4 Robert Waldegrave's 1581 Edition: In Defense of Protestant Martyrdom
5 Anthony Munday's 1584 Edition: Establishing a Protestant Pedigree
6 Conclusion
4 A Justification of Flight: Robert Horne's 1553 Translation
1 Situating Horne's Translation: Background and Context
2 Career Reformer: Exile, Return, and the Making of a Principled Conformist
2.1 From Fugitive to Bishop
2.2 The Zurich Letters
2.3 From "Rome" via Wesel: English Protestant Printing under Mary i
3 Selective Silence: Horne's Use of Calvin
4 Horne's Preface
5 Horne's Translation
6 Horne's Strategy
7 Conclusion
5 A Subtler Admonition: John Field's Anti-Nicodemism
1 Situating Field's Translation: Background and Context
1.1 An Admonition to the Parliament (1572)
1.2 Field's Translations and Prefaces, 1577-1583
1.3 John Field and the English Reception of Calvin
2 Field's Preface
3 Field's Translation
4 Field's Strategy
4.1 1579: Field's Year of French Translation
4.2 The Papal Menace in Field's Translation of Mornay
4.3 Thirteene Sermons: "Merite Mongers" and the Threat of Disorder
4.4 Foure Sermons: Nicodemites as Moderates in the Elizabethan Church
5 Conclusion
Conclusion The Story of Quatre Sermons in England (and Geneva)
1 Nicodemism and the English Calvin: A Case of Mistaken Identity?
Appendix on Terminology
Bibliography
Index