‘According to Right Law’: John Jewel’s Use of the <i>Ius Antiqua</i> in His Defense of the Elizabethan Church
André A. Gazal
Abstract In his Apology of the Church England as well many other works, John Jewel defended orthodoxy Elizabethan on basis following criteria: Scripture, first four general councils, writings Fathers, and example primitive church. 1 By emphasizing these authorities, bishop Salisbury also sought to impeach Roman Church’s claim by arguing that doctrines practices which developed subsequently early church defined criteria contradict them, thereby nullifying its charge heresy against Protestants while simultaneously indicting papacy itself heretical. A question emerges from studying Jewel’s prodigious polemical works concerns source this means determining orthodoxy. Answering requires a close analysis apologist’s use sources. This article will attempt answer for defining derived mainly canon law tradition is confirmed specifically Gratian’s Decretum . thesis maintains constituted form ius antiqua with he attacked novum provided authoritative papal supremacy, in so doing, vindicate place ancient catholic tradition.
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