1522 – 1571

John Jewel

Worth knowing

An English Protestant who went into exile under Queen Mary and became bishop of Salisbury in 1560.
In his Challenge Sermon of 1559 he invited his opponents to prove their disputed teachings from the first six centuries of the church.
His Apology of the Church of England (1562) sets out the charges against the English church and answers them one by one.

In Scholar’s Dream, John Jewel has one book

An Apology of the Church of EnglandApologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1562)EcclesiologyHistory

Passages you can read in the game

Longer excerpts the Scriptorium holds on screen for a player to sit and read, word for word.

“It hath been an old complaint, even from the first time of the patriarchs and Prophets, and confirmed by the writings and testimonies of every age, that the truth wandereth here and there as a stranger in the world, and doth readily find enemies and slanderers amongst those that know her not.”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.

from An Apology of the Church of England

“Of a truth, unity and concord doth best become religion: yet is not unity the sure and certain mark whereby to know the Church of God. For there was the greatest consent that might be amongst them that worshipped the golden calf; and among them which with one voice jointly cried against our Saviour Jesus Christ, ‘Crucify Him.’”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.

from An Apology of the Church of England

“For the wasps also make honey-combs as well as bees, and wicked men have companies like to the Church of God…”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.

from An Apology of the Church of England

“Thus did the holy fathers always fight against the heretics with none other force than with the Holy Scriptures.”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.

from An Apology of the Church of England

Words John Jewel’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“It hath been an old complaint, even from the first time of the patriarchs and Prophets, and confirmed by the writings and testimonies of every age, that the truth wandereth here and there as a stranger in the world, and doth readily find enemies and slanderers amongst those that know her not.”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move A Stranger in the World

HistoryArgument · power 74 · 100% accurate

In the gameBefore the argument starts, a plain reminder: being hated is not evidence, and a loud charge is not a true one. The truth has been shouted down in every century.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 1)

Strong against

×2.5Known by Its Fruitsan argument · why?

The truth has always found slanderers. That is not a defence of the wreckage; it is a warning about reading noise as evidence.

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As some of your own poets have said.”
Acts 17:28 (WEB) — Paul at the Areopagus, quoting the Athenians’ own poets back to them.

How it works in the game: the move Affirm

Status

In the gamePick the part of the opponent’s case that is true and affirm it. That point can no longer be used against you, and the opponent’s Defend falls sharply. It deals no damage. Affirm something false and you have only agreed with an error.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 37)

“Of a truth, unity and concord doth best become religion: yet is not unity the sure and certain mark whereby to know the Church of God. For there was the greatest consent that might be amongst them that worshipped the golden calf; and among them which with one voice jointly cried against our Saviour Jesus Christ, ‘Crucify Him.’”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Unity Is No Mark

EcclesiologyArgument · power 92 · 100% accurate

In the gameGrants the whole of the premise and refuses the conclusion. Concord is good and it is not a test — because the people at the foot of the golden calf had it, and so did the crowd outside Pilate’s door.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 38)

Strong against

×3Known by Its Fruitsan argument · why?

Their disagreement is real. It is not what settles whether they are right.

×3The Consent of the Fathersan argument · why?

Agreement is not the test, and he has been assuming it is for the whole conversation.

×3The Most Ancient Customan argument · why?

The golden calf had unanimity. So did the crowd outside Pilate’s door.

“For heresy is a forsaking of salvation, a renouncing of God’s grace, a departing from the body and spirit of Christ.”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Heresy Is No Light Word

EcclesiologyArgument · power 82 · 100% accurate

In the gameMakes the accuser carry his own charge. Heresy is not an insult and not a filing category — it is the claim that a man has walked out of salvation, and a claim that size has to be proved rather than shouted.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 39)

Strong against

×2Known by Its Fruitsan argument · why?

Make him say what he is actually charging.

“…whose errors were proved and made manifest to the world, which Church also had already evidently departed from God’s word: and yet not to depart so much from itself, as from the errors thereof…”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain

How it works in the game: the move Departed from the Errors

EcclesiologyArgument · power 90 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe schism answer, put precisely enough to be argued with. Leaving an error inside a body is not leaving the body — and the errors left first.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 40)

Strong against

×4The Charge of Schisman argument · why?

Puts it precisely enough to be argued with: leaving an error inside a body is not leaving the body — and the errors left first.

“For the wasps also make honey-combs as well as bees, and wicked men have companies like to the Church of God…”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move Wasps Make Combs Too

EcclesiologyArgument · power 78 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe name of a thing is not the thing. A company can have the shape of a church, the officers of a church and the word church on its door, and the question of whether it is one stays open.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 41)

Strong against

×2The Charge of Schisman argument · why?

The name of a thing is not the thing.

“…might the Churches of the Galatians and Corinthians go amiss, and the Church of Rome alone may not fail, nor go amiss?”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain

How it works in the game: the move Galatia Went Amiss

HistoryArgument · power 84 · 100% accurate

In the gameAn argument made entirely out of the New Testament’s own mail. Paul wrote to churches he had planted to tell them they had gone wrong. Name the church that was promised it could not.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 43)

Strong against

×2.5The Charge of Schisman argument · why?

Paul wrote to churches he planted to tell them they had gone wrong. Name the one that was promised it could not.

“Thus did the holy fathers always fight against the heretics with none other force than with the Holy Scriptures.”
Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (1562), trans. Anne Cooke Bacon 1564, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell, 1888), public domain.public domain

How it works in the game: the move None Other Force

HistoryArgument · power 86 · 100% accurate

In the gameA claim about method, and it is checkable. When the fathers fought heretics they did not produce a register of bishops; they opened the book. Jewel names Augustine against Petilian and invites you to go and look.

Learned byAn Apology of the Church of England (Lv 45)

Strong against

×2.5On Baptisma book · why?

Jewel quotes Augustine against Petilian the Donatist for this very point: not “I say, you say,” but “Thus says the Lord.”

×2.5The Charge of Noveltyan argument · why?

Method, not date. Show him the fathers doing what you are doing.

×2.5The Consent of the Fathersan argument · why?

The fathers’ own method, turned on the man citing them.

Who else was alive

John Jewel against everyone else in the game.

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Boethius Boniface John of Damascus Daniel of Winchester Timothy I Alcuin of York Pope Leo III Eulogius of Córdoba Paul Alvaro of Córdoba Rimbert Humbert of Silva Candida Michael Cerularius Peter III of Antioch Anselm of Canterbury Ari Thorgilsson Ebo and Herbord Thomas Aquinas John Wyclif Lorenzo Valla Girolamo Savonarola Pope Paul III Martin Luther Miles Coverdale William Tyndale Emperor Charles V John Calvin Teresa of Ávila John Jewel The Council of Trent The English exiles at Geneva Hugo Grotius René Descartes John Owen Blaise Pascal John Bunyan Louis XIV of France Pierre Bayle Joseph Butler Jonathan Edwards Thomas Reid George Campbell William Paley John Henry Newman J. C. Ryle Friedrich Nietzsche James Orr B. B. Warfield Herman Bavinck W. R. Sorley James Denney J. Gresham Machen

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