Luther's Legacy Salvation and English Reformers, 1525-1556

by Trueman, Carl R.

• ISBN13: 9780198263524
• ISBN10: 019826352X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book is the first major and exclusive study of the Christian idea of salvation as seen through the eyes of five sixteenth-century English reformers: John Frith, John Hooper, Robert Barnes, John Bradford, and the famous Bible translator, William Tyndale. The author sets their views incontext, both historically and intellectually, before engaging in a detailed and clear examination of all the relevant aspects of their thought, from election and justification to the relationship between sacraments and salvation. The picture that emerges reveals not only the extensive impact ofcontinental thought upon English Reformation theology, but also the manner in which the writing of men such as Luther, Melanchthon, Bullinger and Bucer were used (often selectively and sometimes surprisingly) by the English reformers to support their own distinctive concerns. It also becomes clearthat by 1556, English Protestantism, even at its highest level, had already experienced serious doctrinal tenstions concerning the nature of salvation, tensions which were a dark omen of future controversies.

Author Biography

Carl R. Trueman is a Lecturer in Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Note on Texts	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical and Intellectual Context	p. 7
Five Roads to Martyrdom	p. 9
The Intellectual Context 1	p. 31
The Intellectual Context 2	p. 54
The Reformers Under Henry VIII	p. 81
William Tyndale	p. 83
John Frith	p. 121
Robert Barnes	p. 156
Conclusion to Part Two	p. 198
The Reformers Under Edward VI and Mary	p. 203
John Hooper	p. 205
John Bradford	p. 243
Conclusion to Part Three	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 294
Index	p. 303
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