| 词条 | Pseudo-Martyr |
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BackgroundDonne had converted from Catholicism, but had not moved decisively into the Protestant camp. From 1604 he became involved in controversial theology as an onlooker, assisting his friend Thomas Morton in a reply to James Anderton, commissioned by Richard Bancroft.[3][4] The content of Pseudo-MartyrDonne entered directly into one of the major debates of the period, supporting Sir Edward Coke against the Jesuit Robert Parsons. Coke in Fift Part of the Reports (1606) had made a historical argument on the powers of the King of England in church matters.[5] Donne characterised the English mission, of Catholic priests trained to convert Protestants and sustain English Catholics, as "enemies to the dignity of all princes", and seditious because of the theories of temporal power of the Pope supported particularly by the Jesuits.[6] Donne used a comparison with the Circumcellions to denigrate Jesuit attitudes to martyrdom.[7] A more subtle side to the argument is that it recognised that the oath had closed down the option of passive obedience to the king. Donne threw the onus of swearing onto individual conscience, discounting both arguments from the state and the authority of casuistry. The only acceptable basis was scripture and knowledge of nature, the duty of obedience being considered in the light of natural law.[8] Intention and receptionPseudo-Martyr launched Donne into a career as a clergyman of the Church of England, one of the reasons he wrote it. He also aimed it at English Catholics. The work influenced Thomas James, who praised it.[9]Notes1. ^Achsah Guibbory (editor), The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (2006), p. 91; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3Mb5T5SJiYC&pg=PA91 Google Books]. 2. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Donne, John (1573-1631)}} 3. ^John Stubbs, Donne: The Reformed Soul (2007), p. 236. 4. ^Malcolm Hardman, A Kingdom in Two Parishes: Lancashire religious writers and the English monarchy, 1521-1689 (1998), p. 175; [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbcJD-6vVAcC&pg=PA175 Google Books]. 5. ^Anthony Raspa, Pseudo-Martyr: wherein out of certaine propositions and gradations, this conclusion is evicted that those which are of the Romane religion in this kingdome, may and ought to take the oath of allegiance (1993 edition), p. 271 notes to p.9, and p. 278; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NrG1Un_7a7cC&pg=PA271 Google Books]. 6. ^Olga L. Valbuena, Subjects to the King's Divorce: equivocation, infidelity, and resistance in early modern England (2003), p. 26;[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj3qSC0SSicC&pg=PA26 Google Books]. 7. ^Susannah Brietz Monta, Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (2005), p. 138; [https://books.google.com/books?id=bvbFiRFF7b4C&pg=PA138 Google Books]. 8. ^Rebecca Lemon, Treason by Words: Literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2008), p. 126; [https://books.google.com/books?id=6xuK4L98f_MC&pg=PA126 Google Books]. 9. ^Johann P. Somerville, John Donne the Controversialist: The Poet as Political Thinker, p. 94, in David Colclough (editor), John Donne's Professional Lives (2003); [https://books.google.com/books?id=vehTu2WHAKEC&pg=PA94 Google Books]. Further reading
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