Date Thesis Awarded
5-2024
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
History
Advisor
Nicholas Popper
Committee Members
Kathrin Levitan
Alexander Angelov
Abstract
This thesis seeks to prove, via extensive engagement with the scholarly literature on Biblical hermeneutics, the Edwardian Reformation, the Scottish Reformation, as well as with the works of John Knox, that the prophetic hermeneutic of John Knox’s corpus, a hermeneutic that would not stay relegated to the written word, but rather influenced the course of his life and decisions in his leadership of the Scottish Reformation from 1560 on, can be reasonably grounded in the Old Testament typological narratives of the Edwardian period in the Church of England - a period that Knox was intimately familiar with as a preacher to Edward VI himself. Thus, John Knox is not merely a prophet after the style of the Old Testament men of God, but specifically an Edwardian prophet, whose own penchant for typology can be traced from the development of the Protestant genre at the beginning of the Reformation, through the Church of England under Edward VI, and into the Scottish Reformation of the 1560s.
Recommended Citation
Conrod, Jacob, "Knox as an Edwardian Prophet: Continuity in Typology, Rhetoric, and Iconography between the Edwardian and Scottish Reformations, 1547-1572." (2024). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 2146.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/2146
