THE ENGLISH INQUISITION: CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW IN THE 1590s
THE ENGLISH INQUISITION: CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW IN THE 1590s
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英国宗教裁判所：1590 年代的宪法冲突和教会法
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10.1017/s0018246x0400384x
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2004
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E. Shagan
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E. Shagan
本文探讨了16世纪90年代宗教辩论与宪法冲突之间的关系，重点是教会法的地位和教会法院对英国臣民施加依职权宣誓的权利。它认为，大主教惠特吉夫的客户、政府使用依职权宣誓的主要辩护者理查德？科辛（Richard Cosin）利用这一问题对国家权力做出了一系列咄咄逼人和有争议的断言。这些理论主张并不涉及主权或君主的权力--这些问题通常由政治思想史学家来处理--而是涉及更受神学影响的问题，即公共权威与私人良知之间的界限。因此，科辛和他的支持者将一致性和反清教徒主义的原材料转化为对国家及其强制权力的看法，这似乎威胁到了普通法和拿破仑政权自己的主张，即它没有成为“进入男人灵魂的窗户”。
This article examines the relationship between religious debate and constitutional conflict in the 1590s, focusing on the status of ecclesiastical law and the right of the church courts to impose ex officio oaths upon English subjects. It argues that Richard Cosin, a client of Archbishop Whitgift and the leading apologist for the government's use of ex officio oaths, used the issue to make a series of aggressive and controversial assertions of state power. These theoretical claims did not involve sovereignty or the powers of the monarch – the issues usually addressed by historians of political thought – but rather the much more theologically charged question of the line between public authority and private conscience. As such, Cosin and his supporters transformed the raw materials of conformity and anti-puritanism into a view of the state and its coercive powers that seemed to threaten both the common law and the Elizabethan regime's own claims that it did not make ‘windows into men's souls’.