Thomas Cranmer's doctrine of repentance : renewing the power to love
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 participa
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Acknowledgements; Contents; 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 1520s: 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
Originally published: 2000