Week 13 November 29--December 3

Reformation Comes to the British Isles:

God's Providence, Henry VIII's Quest for an Heir

 

Readings for the Week: 

1. From Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion:  Read approximately the first 12 pages of Book I  (Chapters 1--4), the first 10 pages of Book II (Chapter 1), and Book IV, Chapter 20, "Of Civil Government.
2. Begin John Milton's Paradise Lost:  Read Books 1--3.  Also, read selected poems by Milton.
3. From Douglas Kelly's The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World: The Influence of Calvin on Five Governments from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries:  Read Introduction and Chapter 4 "Calvinism in England: The Puritan Struggle and Its Results."
4. Be reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens for fun. (Failure to read it for fun will result in a flogging and a zero.)

Monday:

•        Surveying the landscape of Calvin, The Institutes, Calvinism, and the Reformation
•        Introduction to "The Reformation in England" with a Timeline of Key Events and People
•         Film:  "A Man for All Seasons"

Tuesday:

•         The Wives and Wiles of King Henry VIII 
•          Meet John Milton and begin in-class close readings from Paradise Lost
•           Continue Watching "A Man for All Seasons"

Wednesday

•  Reformation under Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, and the Men of the White Horse Tavern
•   Studies from Paradise Lost:  Books 1 & 2
•    Documentary Film:  "Burning Convictions" with Simon Schama

Thursday

•            Edward VI, Mary (a.k.a. Bloody Mary), & Good Queen Bess
•            Studies from Paradise Lost:  Books 2 & 3
•            Continue Documentary Film

Friday

• The Golden Age of England--The Age of Queen Elizabeth
• Poets of the Age:  Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ben Johnson, & Others
• Finish Documentary

 

 

Taken from the Web

The following quote is from the homilies established as standard sermons during the English Reformation.  The homily is called, A Short Declaration of the True, Lively and Christian Faith.

 

First, the quote from the original:

 

Such is the true faith, that the Scripture doeth so much commend, the which when it seeth and considereth what GOD hath done for vs, is also mooued through continuall assistance of the Spirit of GOD, to serue and please him, to keepe his fauour, to feare his displeasure, to continue his obedient children, shewing thankefulnesse againe by obseruing or keeping his commandements, and that freely, for true loue chiefly, and not for dread of punishment, or loue of temporall reward, considering how cleerely, without deseruings wee haue receiued his mercy and pardon freely.

 

And now a transliteration into modern spelling:

 

Such is the true faith, that the Scripture doth so much commend, the which when it seeth and considereth what God hath done for us, is also moved through continual assistance of the Spirit of God, to serve and please him, to keep his favor, to fear his displeasure, to continue his obedient children, showing thankfulness again by observing or keeping his commandments, and that freely, for true love chiefly, and not for dread of punishment, or love of temporal reward, considering how clearly, without deservings we have received his mercy and pardon freely.

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

 

  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;
    Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.