THE PURITAN PARADIGM OF ENGLISH POLITICS, 1558–1642*
THE PURITAN PARADIGM OF ENGLISH POLITICS, 1558–1642*
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英国政治的清教徒范式，1558 年至 1642 年*
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10.1017/s0018246x1000018x
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2010
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N. Tyacke
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摘要传统上，清教主义一直被视为一种宗教现象，它只在有限的范围内对世俗政治世界产生影响，而且主要与教会改革有关。然而，这种方法是采用一个误导性的狭隘定义，忽略了一个更全面的清教徒政治愿景的存在，可追溯到十六世纪中期世纪。这种思维方式首先由一些玛丽安流亡者清楚地表达出来，他们将《圣经》解释为反对教会或国家暴政的宣言。在伊丽莎白一世、詹姆斯一世和查理一世的连续政权下，可以发现清教徒继续以同样的圣经标准来判断政府的行为，这也有助于解释他们在反对非议会税收方面的突出地位。清教徒的意识形态通过家族联盟代代相传，这种联盟以教义和布道为基础，这反过来又为政治组织提供了基础。此外，从1628年白金汉遇刺后的反应来看，清教主义的激进潜力丝毫未减。鉴于这些先例，随后诉诸内战似乎并不像历史学家通常所说的那样令人惊讶。
ABSTRACT Traditionally puritanism has been treated as a religious phenomenon that only impinged on the world of that ‘secular’ politics to a limited extent and mainly in relation to church reform. Such an approach, however, is to employ a misleadingly narrow definition which ignores the existence of a much more all-embracing puritan political vision traceable from the mid-sixteenth century. First clearly articulated by some of the Marian exiles, this way of thinking interpreted the Bible as a manifesto against tyranny whether in church or state. Under the successive regimes of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, puritans can be found who continued to judge the actions of government by the same biblical criterion, which also helps to explain among other things their prominence in opposing unparliamentary taxation. Puritan ideology itself was transmitted down the generations partly via a complex of family alliances, underpinned by teaching and preaching, and this in turn provided a basis for political organization. Moreover, the undiminished radical potential of puritanism is evident from responses to the assassination of Buckingham in 1628. Given these antecedents the subsequent resort to Civil War appears less surprising than historians often claim.