Appropriating St. Jerome: The English Conformist Defenses of Episcopacy, c. 1570-1610

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This paper proposes that the English conformist views of the nature of episcopacy is best indicated by focusing on their differing interpretation of Jeromeʼs two specific writings. Previous literature assumed a hardening case of jure divino argument and fell short of establishing an adequate method of comparing the conformist opinions of episcopacy. Providing a better frame of comparison, it is demonstrated that there were three types of conformist responses and that the typology did not become starker in a chronological manner.