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Thomas Cranmer's doctrine of repentance : renewing the power to love

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. - Publisher
Print Book, English, 2010
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010
viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780199210008, 9780198270218, 0199210004, 0198270216
1003204090
Introduction: The theology of Thomas Cranmer
Cranmer's medieval inheritance: Contrition as repentance
Cranmer's doctrine of repentance circa 1520: Augustinian influenced Scotist penance
Cranmer's doctrine of repentance during the 1520s: Erasmian penitence
Cranmer's doctrine of repentance circa 1537: Lutheran sacramental penance
Being made right willed by faith: Justification in Cranmer's great commonplaces circa 1544
The Edwardian years: Public Protestant Augustinianism
Conclusion
Originally published: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000