Faith in Conflict - Our Most Challenging Reads Yet!

Описание: Trying to wrap our heads around the complex religious discourse of 16th century England 🤔

The texts:
Comparative translations of Corinthians (Tyndale, The Geneva Bible, The Douay-Rheims version, The Authorized King James version)
Extract from The Obedience of a Christian Man (William Tyndale)
--- The forgiveness of sins
--- Scriptural interpretation
Extract from A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (Thomas More): Book 1, Chapter 28
Extract from The Institution of Christian Religion (John Calvin): Book 3, Chapter 21
Extract from The First Examination of Anne Askew (Anne Askew)
Extract from Acts and Monuments (John Foxe): The Death of Anne Askew
Extract from Book of Common Prayer: The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
Extract from Book of Homilies: An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
Extract from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Richard Hooker): Book 1, Chapter 3 - On the Several Kinds of Law, and on the Natural Law
The Burning Babe (Robert Southwell)

Some are freely available here:
The Institutions of Christian Religion: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45001...
Acts and Monuments (also known as Foxe’s Book of Martrys): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22400...
The Burning Babe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...

Our 16th Century TBR: https://tinyurl.com/4f2wj2zx

We are reading from the 10th edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature: https://tinyurl.com/2p8h5exj

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