Teaching ‘all thynge necessary to salvacyon’: Religious Dialogue

Abstract Chapter 5 investigates religious dialogue. It traces continuities between pre- and post-Reformation dialogues—namely, the use of dialogue for didactic, rather than maieutic, purposes; interest in the relationship between faith and reason; the affective power of in-text models (and anti-models) whose behaviour readers can emulate or eschew; the desire to guide readers to salvation; and belief in the pedagogic value of dialogue as a form which is ‘simple’ and ‘easy’ to understand—as well