A Translation of St. Thomas More's Responsio Ad Lutherum
Author : Saint Thomas More
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Religion
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Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Religion
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Author : James Simpson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674043677
The evidence is everywhere: fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world. Amid such present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century. James Simpson focuses on a critical moment in early modern England, specifically the cultural transformation that allowed common folk to read the Bible for the first time. Widely understood and accepted as the grounding moment of liberalism, this was actually, Simpson tells us, the source of fundamentalism, and of different kinds of persecutory violence. His argument overturns a widely held interpretation of sixteenth-century Protestant reading--and a crucial tenet of the liberal tradition. After exploring the heroism and achievements of sixteenth-century English Lutherans, particularly William Tyndale, Burning to Read turns to the bad news of the Lutheran Bible. Simpson outlines the dark, dynamic, yet demeaning paradoxes of Lutheran reading: its demands that readers hate the biblical text before they can love it; that they be constantly on the lookout for unreadable signs of their own salvation; that evangelical readers be prepared to repudiate friends and all tradition on the basis of their personal reading of Scripture. Such reading practice provoked violence not only against Lutheranism's stated enemies, as Simpson demonstrates; it also prompted psychological violence and permanent schism within its own adherents. The last wave of fundamentalist reading in the West provoked 150 years of violent upheaval; as we approach a second wave, this powerful book alerts us to our peril.
Author : Sir Thomas More (Saint)
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Page : 738 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838642152
Latin lives of Thomas More / Germain Marc'hadour -- Modern biographies of Sir Thomas More / Michael Ackland -- More's letters and "The comfort of the truth" / Alison V. Scott -- Humanism, female education, and myth : Erasmus, Vives, and More's To Candidus / A.D. Cousins -- Virtue, transformation, and exemplarity in The Lyfe of Johan Picus / L.E. Semmler -- Inhabiting time : Sir Thomas More's Historia Richardi Tertii / Arthur F. Kinney -- The epigrams of More and Erasmus : a literary diptych / Clarence H. Miller -- Erasmus and More : exploring vocations / Bruce Mansfield -- "Civitas philosophica" : ideas and community in Thomas More / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Utopia / Damian Grace -- The reluctant champion : More's Responsio ad Lutherum and Letter to Bugenhagen / Alistair Fox -- "The field is won" : an introduction to the Tower works / Seymour Baker House.
Author : Thomas Stapleton
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1928
Category : History
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Author : Thomas More
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1965
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ISBN : 9780300033762
Author : Ralph Keen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9004609717
This tract, a defence of the faith of the English people, was originally published in 1526. The present new text-edition has a parallel English translation. It is preceded by an Introduction and followed by a Commentary, two Appendices and an Index.
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307823016
Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia); and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint. Born into the professional classes, Thomas More applied his formidable intellect and well-placed connections to become the most powerful man in England, second only to the king. As much a work of history as a biography, The Life of Thomas More gives an unmatched portrait of the everyday, religious, and intellectual life of the early sixteenth century. In Ackroyd's hands, this renowned "man for all seasons" emerges in the fullness of his complex humanity; we see the unexpected side of his character--such as his preference for bawdy humor--as well as his indisputable moral courage.
Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789061867920
This book tells the story of seven new letters from Sir Thomas More to Frans van Cranevelt that were discovered among a bundle of letters that were auctioned in London in 1989, part of the private archive of Cranevelt. The letters span the years 1519-1522.
Author : Brian Gogan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004065086