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Tauber, V. A. Retsenziya na: Chugunova, T. G. William Tyndale: Slovo, tserkov i gosudarstvo v rannem angliyskom protestantizme. Moskva/Sankt-Peterburg, 2017 [Review on: Chugunova, T. G. William Tyndale: Word, Church, and State in the Early English Protestantism. Moskva/Sankt-Peterburg, 2017], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). P. 175–192.

Vladimir Andreevich Tauber, PhD in history, museum editor, Moscow Kremlin Museums (103132, Russia, Moscow, Kremlin)
vtauber@yandex.ru

Language: Russian

T. G. Chugunova’s book, «William Tyndale: Word, Church, and State in the Early English Protestantism», is the first biography of this prominent English theologian and translator of the Bible written and published in Russia. The author provides an overview of the life and acts of William Tyndale paying special attention to his theological works. Some of his most notable treatises were for the first time translated into Russian language and included in the book as the appendices. The reviewer analyzes the advantages as well as the faults of the monograph concentrating on the sources and the methods used by the author. In particular, the emphasis is put on the lack of author’s awareness of the modern historiography of the English Reformation which results in numerous drawbacks of the whole book.

Key Words: William Tyndale, English Reformation, Protestantism, translation of the Bible

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Restif, B.
The propositions censored by the Faculty of theology of the University of Rheims in the times of the cardinal of Lorraine. The spread of Protestant ideas, doctrinal fragility of the clerics and construction of Roman Catholicism, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). P. 150–163.

Bruno Restif, PhD in History, associate professor in Early-Modern History, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (51096, France, Reims Cedex, 57 rue Pierre Taittinger)
bruno.restif@univ-reims.fr

Language: English

The discovery of an unprecedented document, which contains the censures published in the name of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Rheims at the time of the Cardinal of Lorraine, from 1557 to 1572, is of considerable importance for the study of the spreading of Protestant ideas, of the permeability of the Catholic clergy to some of these ideas, and of the doctrinal construction of Roman Catholicism. In the 1550s, there was a censorship of heretical words spoken in the streets of Rheims by laypeople and even in a church by a parish priest. The censorship of these propositions was effective, as we can see there was no longer need to censor speeches by 1560. However, at that time, several Protestant books circulated in Reims were censored by the Faculty. In the mid-1560’s, there was a new trouble: Gentian Hervet, a famous anti-Protestant polemicist, who was in Rheims at the request of the Cardinal of Lorraine, made problematic statements in his books. Around 1570, the confessional construction conducted against the Protestant doctrinal seduction prompted the Faculty to give clear instructions to parish priests on the administration of sacraments and preaching. In 1572, it seems that the targeted persons are now canons of the cathedral chapter and parish priests. Thus, the need to fight Protestant ideas and practices compelled Catholicism to a strict confessional construction.

Key Words: censures, faculty of theology, Cardinal of Lorraine, Protestantism, books, clerics, liturgy, Tridentinization, controversy

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