1. John Jewel was the youngest son of John Jewel of Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor in Devon, by his wife Alice Bellamye, daughter of Richard Bellamye.
17 Facts About John Jewel
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John Jewel graduated BA in 1540 and MA in 1545, having been elected fellow of his college in 1542.
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John Jewel made some mark as a teacher at Oxford, and became after 1547 one of the chief disciples of Pietro Martire Vermigli, known in England as Peter Martyr.
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John Jewel graduated BD in 1552, and was made vicar of Sunningwell to the south of Oxford, and public orator of the university, in which capacity he had to compose a congratulatory epistle to Queen Mary on her accession.
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John Jewel's attitude was strongly distinguishable from that of the Elizabethan Puritans, as he gradually formulated it under the stress of office and responsibility.
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John Jewel now constituted himself the literary defender of the Elizabethan Settlement.
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John Jewel repeated his challenge in 1560, and Dr Henry Cole, priest, took it up.
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John Jewel continued to present the case for the Church of England from public pulpits, particularly Paul's Cross, in the year's following 'the Challenge sermon'.
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John Jewel published an elaborate and bitter Answer in 1564, to which Jewel issued a "Reply" in 1565.
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Latterly John Jewel had been confronted with criticism from a different quarter.
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The arguments that had weaned him from the Puritan Zwinglian worldviews did not satisfy his some English nonconformists, and John Jewel had to refuse admission to a benefice to his friend Lawrence Humphrey, who would not wear a surplice.
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John Jewel was consulted a good deal by the government on such questions as England's attitude towards the Council of Trent, and political considerations made him more and more hostile to Puritan demands with which he had previously clashed.
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John Jewel wrote an attack on Thomas Cartwright, which was published after his death by Whitgift.
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John Jewel was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, where he had built a library.
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Unlike the Augsburg Confession, John Jewel's Apology is much more interested in doctrines and issues concerning the church than in soteriology.
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John Jewel makes it clear that salvation comes by faith in Christ.
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John Jewel's Apology has been translated in Czech language and printed in Prague in 1619, during the Bohemian Revolt.