Author: Malcolm Hardman

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780838636671

Aiming at supremacy in church and state, Henry VIII had destroyed regional pilgrimage shrines that drew both earthly and religious loyalty. Seeking a fairer image of God in Trinity, religious writers felt compelled to modify political concepts of authority, sovereignty, and assent already associated with Father, son, and Spirit. In the process, both God and the king were transformed.