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

by Ashley Null

Overview

Although Thomas 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. This volume examines little used manuscript sources to reconstruct Cranmer's theological development on the crucial Protestant doctrine of justification. Ashley Null 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199210008
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/08/2007
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	8.45(w) x 5.78(h) x 0.74(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     vi
Abbreviations     x
Introduction: The Theology of Thomas Cranmer     1
Cranmer's Medieval Inheritance: Contrition as Repentance     28
Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance circa 1520: Augustinian-Influenced Scotist Penance     65
Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance during the 1520s: Erasmian Penitence     82
Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance circa 1537: Lutheran Sacramental Penance     116
Being Made 'Right-Willed' by Faith: Justification in 'Cranmer's Great Commonplaces' circa 1544     157
The Edwardian Years: Public Protestant Augustinianism     213
Conclusion     248
Appendix     254
Bibliography     279
Index     295