The Theology of John Fisher
The Theology of John Fisher
Author:
Richard Rex
Published:
April 1991
Availability:
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Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780521391771
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This book investigates the intellectual career of Bishop John Fisher (1469-1535), the early sixteenth century bishop of Rochester and victim of Henry VIII's Reformation, whose numerous writings included one of the most influential refutations of that century of Martin Luther.
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"Rex's study is insightful and exceedingly well documented...a significant contribution to the history of English Christian thought in the early sixteenth century." The Catholic Historical Review
Product details
- Published: April 1991
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780521391771
- Length: 308 pages
- Dimensions: 237 × 160 × 30 mm
- Weight: 0.576kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Humanism and scholasticism in late fifteenth-century Cambridge
- 2. Fisher and the Christian humanists
- 3. Fisher and the Catholic campaign against Luther
- 4. Authority
- 5. Faith, grace and justification
- 6. The inspiration and translation of scripture
- 7. The controversy over Henry VIII's first marriage
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix - John Fisher's library
- Bibliography
- Index.
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