Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation 1489-1556
Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation 1489-1556

Author: A. F. Pollard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0429620233

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Published in 1965: It has been maintained by an eminent scholar recently dead that the chief content of modern history is the emancipation of conscience from the control of authority. From that point of view the student of Tudor times will not be exclusive in his choice of heroes. He will find room in his calendar of saints for More as well as for Cranmer. Both had grave imperfections, and both took their share in enforcing the claims of authority over those of conscience. Nor perhaps is it true to say that they died in order that we might be free; but they died for conscience' sake, and unless they and others had died conscience would still be in chains. That was Cranmer's service in the cause of humanity his Church owes him no less, for in the Book of Common Prayer he gave it the most effective of all its possessions.

Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9780300074482

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The first major biography of its subject in more than thirty years makes use of new British manuscript sources to draw a rich portrait of Henry VIII's archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the Reformation. UP.

Emblem of Faith Untouched
Emblem of Faith Untouched

Author: Leslie Winfield Williams

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2016-12-12

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1467446297

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Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led such an eventful life: Cranmer helped Henry VIII break with the pope, pressed his vision of the Reformation through the reign of Edward VI, was forced to recant under Queen Mary, and then dramatically withdrew his recantations before being burned alive. This lively biography by Leslie Williams narrates Cranmer's life from the beginning, through his education and history with the monarchy, to his ecclesiastical trials and eventual martyrdom. Williams portrays Cranmer's ongoing struggle to reconcile his two central loyalties—allegiance to the crown and fidelity to the Reformation faith—as she tells his fascinating life story.

Cranmer in Context
Cranmer in Context

Author: Peter Newman Brooks

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Cranmer in Context is a book of edited extracts from the writings of the Tudor primate who was born five hundred years ago, on 2 July 1489. His writings were once readily available, but are now hard to find. A quincentenary celebration ought certainly to prompt a wider public to examine at least something of Cranmer's legacy; and this volume is published to set the spotlight on the remarkable contribution he made to sixteenth-century national politics and piety. As an archbishop of the Reformation, Thomas Cranmer was one of those who molded the English Church when Henry VIII's vision of the 'imperial kingship' and independence determined on schism with Rome. Cranmer than had the task of presiding over a Church in transition -- revising services, re-formulating doctrine, and re-drafting law. In pastoralmMinistry he afforded both faithful and not-so-faithful reasonable diversity of worship within a single comprehensive Church. These pages provide an introduction to the life and work of a significant scholar-priest. His active ministry in high places sets him in the front rank of reform in Tudor England, just as the liturgical grasp that composed the Books of Common Prayer (1549 and 1552) earns its author a literary reputation that is well-nigh Shakespearean. High claims perhaps, but readily substantiated in this book, particularly in the wide range of extracts it contains from the correspondence, controversies, treatises and prayers of the sensitive soul whose genius made enduring virtue from temporary compromise. - Preface.

The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology
The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology

Author: David Bagchi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521776622

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The European Reformation of the sixteenth century was one of the most formative periods in the history of Christian thought and remains one of the most fascinating events in Western history. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology provides a comprehensive guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each of the eighteen chapters is written by a leading authority in the field and provides an up-to-date account and analysis of the thought associated with a particular figure or movement. There are chapters focusing on lesser reformers such as Martin Bucer, and on the Catholic and Radical Reformations, as well as the major Protestant reformers. A detailed bibliography and comprehensive index allows comparison of the treatment of specific themes by different figures. This authoritative and accessible guide will appeal to students of history and literature as well as specialist theologians.

Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance : Renewing the Power to Love
Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance : Renewing the Power to Love

Author: Ashley Null

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-04-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0191514152

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Self-serving lacky, 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 participant in the changes to English life brought about by the Reformation, his reticent nature and lack of extensive personal writings have left a vacuum that in the past has too often been filled by scholarly prejudice or presumption. For the first time, however, this book examines in-depth little used manuscript sources to reconstruct Cranmer's theological development on the crucial Protestant doctrine of justification. The author explores Cranmer's cultural heritage, why he would have been attracted to Luther's thought, and then provides convincing evidence for the Reformed Protestant Augustinianism which Cranmer enshrined in the formularies of the Church of England. For Cranmer the glory of God was his love for the unworthy; the heart of theology was proclaiming this truth through word and sacrament. Hence, the focus of both was on the life of on-going repentance, remembering God's gracious love inspired grateful human love.

Cranmer and the English Reformation
Cranmer and the English Reformation

Author: Francis Ernest Hutchinson

Publisher:

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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"This book provides an introduction to the English Reformation through the person of Archbishop Cranmer, a central and representative figure. It is possible that his part in the political decisions of that revolutionary time has been exaggerated, but his contribution to the religious tradition of the English people has been permanent and profound, in the leading part he took in making the Bible available to the people and in providing them with an English Prayer Book. His was a very English nature, appealing and sympathetic, with a religious sense akin to poetry which expressed itself in the moving cadences of his prose. Dr. Hutchinson tells his story with learning and interpretative sympathy, and shows how Cranmer's work has continued a living tradition in English Church life."--Jacket.