Thomas Cranmer's doctrine of repentance : renewing the power to love / Ashley Null.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Null, Ashley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.

Cranmer, Thomas.

Repentance--Christianity--History of doctrines--16th century.

Repentance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st paperback.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Puppet, Protestant partisan, or Erasmian humanist: which, if any, was Thomas Cranmer? Historians have offered radically contradictory assessments of this key participant in the changes to English life brought about by the Reformation. This book examines little-used manuscript sources to reconstruct Cranmer's personal and theological development. - ;Self-serving lackey, self-deceiving puppet, Swiss Protestant partisan, or sensible Erasmian humanist: which, if any, was Thomas Cranmer? For centuries historians have offered often bitterly contradictory answers. Although Cranmer was a key participation

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Theology of Thomas Cranmer; 1. Cranmer's Medieval Inheritance: Contrition as Repentance; 2. Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance circa 1520: Augustinian-Influenced Scotist Penance; 3. Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance during the 1520's: Erasmian Penitence; 4. Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance circa 1537: Lutheran Sacramental Penance; 5. Being Made 'Right-Willed' by Faith: Justification in 'Cranmer's Great Commonplaces' circa 1544; 6. The Edwardian Years: Public Protestant Augustinianism; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-294) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-152075-6

0-19-921000-4

1-280-75348-X

0-19-151415-2

1-4294-7054-2

OCLC:

609832031