Sinner, Sovereign, and Saint: Calvinist Theology in the Prayers of Queen Elizabeth I

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dc.contributor.advisorDonawerth, Janeen_US
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Scott Raymonden_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-12T05:34:52Z
dc.date.available2006-09-12T05:34:52Z
dc.date.issued2006-05-30en_US
dc.description.abstractElizabeth Tudor espouses a distinctly Calvinist vision of salvation throughout her prayers, emphasizing human depravity and predestination. She confesses her sins as evidence of God's grace at work within to acknowledge her sinfulness and her dependence upon His mercy to escape judgment. She traces her depravity from original sin, through the sins of her daily life, to the expectation of God's judgment. She portrays God's mercy, however, in electing her to salvation and transforming her life so that she can recognize her need for forgiveness and begin to reflect the divine image on earth. She then applies similar terms to her reign: confessing herself to be naturally weak and frail yet empowered by God to reign over England and to restore the Gospel to England. In doing so, she presents a religious and political defense of her reign framed in a distinctly Calvinist context.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3715
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Englishen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Englishen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledElizabethen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCalvinen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpredestinationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddepravityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledconfessionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrhetoricen_US
dc.titleSinner, Sovereign, and Saint: Calvinist Theology in the Prayers of Queen Elizabeth Ien_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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