An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament

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"An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament" is a polemical work by John Whitgift defending the Elizabethan Church of England and episcopal authority against Puritan criticisms.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf polemical work
religious controversy literature
theological treatise
argumentStyle scholastic and scriptural argumentation
associatedWith Elizabeth I of England
English Reformation
author John Whitgift
circulation printed pamphlet literature
controversy Puritan versus episcopal church governance debate
countryOfOrigin England
defends Book of Common Prayer
established ecclesiastical hierarchy in England
denominationContext Church of England
ecclesiologicalPosition support for bishops as scriptural and ancient
fieldOfStudy Reformation studies
church history
early modern English theology
genre anti-Puritan polemic
historicalContext Elizabethan religious settlement controversies
historicalPeriod English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era
influencedBy Reformed theology within an Anglican framework
intendedAudience defenders of the Elizabethan religious settlement
members of the English Parliament
language English
literaryForm prose
mainSubject defence of episcopal church government
defence of the Elizabethan Church of England
refutation of Puritan criticisms
opposes Puritan reform program in the Church of England
presbyterian church polity advocated by Puritans
purpose to discredit Puritan demands for further reform
to justify the existing ecclesiastical order in England
relatedWork The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright
surface form: The Defence of the Answer to the Admonition
religiousTradition Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
supports episcopal authority
royal supremacy in ecclesiastical matters
targetWork An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament self-linksurface differs
surface form: An Admonition to the Parliament
theologicalDiscipline apologetics
ecclesiology
theologicalOrientation conformist Anglican

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John Whitgift notableWork An Answer to a Certain Libel Intituled An Admonition to the Parliament
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