Sin and Salvation in Reformation England

This collection focusses upon the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and post-reformation England. Exploring their complex social and cultural constructions, it underlines how sin and salvation were not only great religious constants, but also constantly evolving in order to survive in the rapidly transforming religious landscape of the reformation. Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives - historical, theological, literary, and material/art-historical - to both reveal and explain the complexity of the concepts of sin and salvation, the volume further illuminates a subject central to the nature and success of the Reformation itself.

Dr Jonathan Willis is a historian of the English Reformation, with an interest in the history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe more broadly. His research focuses on the religious and cultural history of England over the course of the long-sixteenth-century, and his publications include: 'The Decalogue, Patriarchy, and Domestic Religious Education in Reformation England', in J. Doran and C. Methuen (eds), The Church and the Household (Boydell, forthcoming); 'Repurposing the Decalogue in Reformation England', in D. Markl (ed.), The Influence of the Decalogue (Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming); 'Protestant Worship and the Discourse of Music in Reformation England', in N. Mears and A. Ryrie (eds),Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain (Ashgate, 2013); 'A Pottle of Ayle on Whyt Sonday': Everyday Objects and the Musical Culture of the Post-Reformation Parish Church', T. Hamling and C. Richardson (eds), Everyday Objects (Ashgate, 2010); and Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities (Ashgate, 2010).