Sin and Salvation in Reformation England

Dr Jonathan Willis is a historian of the English Reformation, with an interest in the history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe more broadly. His research focuses on the religious and cultural history of England over the course of the long-sixteenth-century, and his publications include: ’The Decalogue, Patriarchy, and Domestic Religious Education in Reformation England’, in J. Doran and C. Methuen (eds), The Church and the Household (Boydell, forthcoming); ’Repurposing the Decalogue in Reformation England’, in D. Markl (ed.), The Influence of the Decalogue (Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming); ’Protestant Worship and the Discourse of Music in Reformation England’, in N. Mears and A. Ryrie (eds),Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain (Ashgate, 2013); 'A Pottle of Ayle on Whyt Sonday': Everyday Objects and the Musical Culture of the Post-Reformation Parish Church’, T. Hamling and C. Richardson (eds), Everyday Objects (Ashgate, 2010); and Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities (Ashgate, 2010).

Introduction: sin and salvation in Reformation England, Jonathan Willis. Part I Defining Sin and Salvation: Sin and salvation in William Tyndale's theology, Ralph S. Werrell; ‘Appareled in Christ’: union with Christ in the soteriology of John Jewel, André A. Gazal; Separating the universal bishop from the universal Church in the Jewel-Harding controversy, Angela Ranson; ‘Moral arithmetic’ or creative accounting? (Re-)defining sin through the Ten Commandments, Jonathan Willis. Part II Contesting Sin and Salvation: Sin and salvation in Roger Ascham's Apologia pro Caena Dominica, Lucy Nicholas; Sin, salvation, and female sexuality in John Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’, Margarita Leonti; ‘[A] solemne league and contract with the Devill’: narratives of sin and desire in A true and exact relation (1645), Sheilagh Ilona O'Brien. Part III Reforming Sin and Salvation: Salvatrix Mundi? Rejecting the redemptive role of the Virgin Mary, Stephen Bates; Disputed words and disputed meanings: the reformation of baptism, infant limbo and child salvation in early modern England, Anna French; ‘If it were made for man, ‘twas made for me’: generic damnation and rhetorical salvation in Reformation preaching and plays, Maria Devlin; Preparationism in Lucy Hutchinson’s ‘Principles of the Christian Religion’, Elizabeth Clarke. Part IV Living with Sin and Salvation: Sin and salvation in the sermons of Edwin Sandys: ‘Be this sin against the Lord far from me, that I should cease to pray for you’, Sarah Bastow; Seeing salvation in the domestic hearth in post-Reformation England, Tara Hamling; ‘Have a little book in thy conscience, and write therein’: writing the Puritan conscience, 1600-1650, Robert Warren Daniel. Afterword, Alexandra Walsham; Index.