ABSTRACT
Norman Jones labelled it an unsettled settlement', greeted with suspicion by both ardent Catholics and zealous reformers. Determining what was considered the catholic' Church by the time of the Jewel-Harding controversy is an important starting-point, because the traditional definition was no longer universally accepted. Like Parker and Pilkington, Jewel acknowledged that only the true universal Church could offer its members a legitimate path to salvation, and then he set about proving that the Church of England was part of the true universal Church. This chapter argues that his strategy led Jewel to find new sources of authority in the spiritual universality represented by the queen and people of England, thus repudiating the pope's claim to authority via the physically universal Church of Rome. It provides the demarcation lines between Jewel and Harding's interpretation of true catholicity for their respective Churches developed first through their re-definition of the term catholic' itself.
