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. Self-serving Lackey, 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, While 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 Where Remembering God's Gracious Love Inspired Grateful Human Love.--jacket. 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 -- Cranmers' 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. Ashley Null. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [279]-294) And Index. 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 Puppet, Protestant partisan, or Erasmian humanist: which, if any, was Thomas Cranmer? Historians have offered radically contradictory assessments of this key participant in the changes to English life brought about by the Reformation. This book examines little-used manuscript sources to reconstruct Cranmer's personal and theological development. - ;Self-serving lackey, 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 participation Thomas Cranmer devoted the full powers of his position as Primate of All England to inculcating the Protestant faith into every fibre of English life and law.