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Judith Loades

To be published shortly by The Davenant Press in advance of the anniversary of the burning of Hooper in the precints of Gloucester Cathedral on February 9th 1555:

John Hooper, Tudor Bishop and Martyr c.1495-1555

by David Newcombe

ISBN 978-1-85944-006-3 Paperback 400pp approx £19.99

John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester was one of the outstanding figures of the English Reformation. Less of a leader than Thomas Cranmer, and less of a theologian than Nicholas Ridley - he exceeded both in the rigour of his vision of the Church. In theology he was closer to Bullinger than he was to either Bucer or Melanchthon or, indeed, Calvin. To John Foxe, he was an outstanding martyr, and such has remained his reputation.

But it was as a preacher and a pastor that he made his chief mark. Austere and inflexible in his discipline, both to himself and to others, he made a huge impression upon his contemporaries, and has been called the ‘father of English puritanism’.

Under Henry VIII he chose to be exiled in Zurich where his time spent with Bullinger led to a passionate commitment to the theology of the Swiss reformers. He returned to England under Edward VI. and fell into a bitter dispute with Cranmer and Ridley. The Vestiarian Controversy was central to Hooper’s reluctance to accept a bishopric. His eventual acceptance and the ensuing thoroughness of his reforms made him an uneasy colleague. Deprived of his see in Mary’s first visitation, he was one of the first to die in the flames for his convictions.

David Newcombe writes of a man ‘who never expected to die in his bed… who always prayed for the opportunity to make this ultimate statement of belief and trust in a power greater than himself…. But then Hooper always knew how to make his point most powerfully.’

David Newcombe is an independent scholar based in Cambridge and was the first Senior Research Officer on the British Academy John Foxe Project. The Project was initially based at the University of Wales, Bangor. In 1996 it moved to the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield where it remains.

Cover illustration :A woodcut showing the burning of John Hooper at Gloucester, February 9^th 1555, The Actes and Monuments of John Foxe.

The cover to Dr. Newcombe's book was designed by:

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