<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> John Jewel, regarded as the principal apologist and theologian for the Elizabethan Church, was also esteemed as one of England’s most important (if not the most important) authority on the subject of usury, and therefore was cited frequently by opponents of usury towards the end of the sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century. One of the most sustained interpretations of Jewel as a theologian on the subject of usury was by Christoph Jelinger, who observed that the late bishop of Sarum employed the same theological method in opposing usury as he did in defending the doctrines and practices of the Church of England against its Catholic opponents, that is, by appealing to the Scriptures, the Church Fathers, Church Councils, and the example of the primitive church. This article seeks to confirm the opinion of Jelinger, and in doing so show that Jewel’s opposition to usury stemmed primarily from the conviction that it was both a vice and heresy that eroded the unifying attribute of Christian society which was love.</p></abstract>

John Jewel, regarded as the principal apologist and theologian for the Elizabethan Church, was also esteemed as one of England’s most important (if not the most important) authority on the subject of usury, and therefore was cited frequently by opponents of usury towards the end of the sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century. One of the most sustained interpretations of Jewel as a theologian on the subject of usury was by Christoph Jelinger, who observed that the late bishop of Sarum employed the same theological method in opposing usury as he did in defending the doctrines and practices of the Church of England against its Catholic opponents, that is, by appealing to the Scriptures, the Church Fathers, Church Councils, and the example of the primitive church. This article seeks to confirm the opinion of Jelinger, and in doing so show that Jewel’s opposition to usury stemmed primarily from the conviction that it was both a vice and heresy that eroded the unifying attribute of Christian society which was love.

Profit ‘That is Condemned by the Word of God’: John Jewel’s Theological Method in His Opposition to Usury

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John Jewel, regarded as the principal apologist and theologian for the Elizabethan Church, was also esteemed as one of England’s most important (if not the...

Profit ‘That is Condemned by the Word of God’: John Jewel’s Theological Method in His Opposition to Usury

Published Online: May 15, 2015

Page range: 39 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2015-0003

Keywords
John Jewel, Usury, Theological Method, Christoph Jelinger, orthodoxy

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Profit ‘That is Condemned by the Word of God’: John Jewel’s Theological Method in His Opposition to Usury

Published Online: May 15, 2015

Page range: 39 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2015-0003

KeywordsJohn Jewel, Usury, Theological Method, Christoph Jelinger, orthodoxy

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
John Jewel, Usury, Theological Method, Christoph Jelinger, orthodoxy