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
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This book examines the intellectual career of Bishop John Fisher (1468-1535), 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 Martin Luther of the century. It places Fisher's writings in the context of contemporary movements of Renaissance and Reformation.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF Cambridge in the intellectual formation of John Fisher can be readily appreciated from the outline of his brilliant career that is preserved for us in the university's records. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legatine tribunal, qua fiat, good werkes, conservative episcopate, bonae literae, almyghty god, title page verso, sole sufficiency, morally good acts, patristic citations, vernacular scripture, eucharistic theology, episcopal duties, sacramental communion, living brother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Lady Margaret, Mary Magdalene, John Fisher, Middle Ages, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Wakefield, Novum Instrumentum, Council of Trent, Cuthbert Tunstall, Exsurge Domine, Henry's Assertio, William Melton, Our Lady, Ralph Baynes, Robert Barnes, Virgin Mary, Gregory of Rimini, John Colet, Richard Croke, Syon Priory, Eck's Enchiridion, George Day New!
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THE IMPORTANCE OF Cambridge in the intellectual formation of John Fisher can be readily appreciated from the outline of his brilliant career that is preserved for us in the university's records. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legatine tribunal, qua fiat, good werkes, conservative episcopate, bonae literae, almyghty god, title page verso, sole sufficiency, morally good acts, patristic citations, vernacular scripture, eucharistic theology, episcopal duties, sacramental communion, living brother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Lady Margaret, Mary Magdalene, John Fisher, Middle Ages, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Wakefield, Novum Instrumentum, Council of Trent, Cuthbert Tunstall, Exsurge Domine, Henry's Assertio, William Melton, Our Lady, Ralph Baynes, Robert Barnes, Virgin Mary, Gregory of Rimini, John Colet, Richard Croke, Syon Priory, Eck's Enchiridion, George Day New!
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- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 4 pages
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 4 pages
- The English Reformation by A.G. Dickens on 4 pages
- Thomas More: A Biography by Richard Marius in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Anne Boleyn by E. W. Ives in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Religious Identities In Henry VIII's England (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History) (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History) by Peter Marshall on 8 pages
- Thomas More (Reputations) by John Guy on 5 pages
- Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series) by Theresa Coletti on 4 pages
- Thomas More (Reputations) by John Guy on 4 pages
- Eucharistic Doctors: A Theological History by Owen F. Cummings on page 189, page 191, and page 192
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