Cranmer and Nominalism
It may seem futile to pose the question of the influence of Nominalism upon Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury. Attempts to view the Reformation as a reaction to late medieval Nominalism, or as essentially Nominalist itself, have not been too well received. One student of Cra...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1964
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1964, Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Pages: 189-216 |
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| Summary: | It may seem futile to pose the question of the influence of Nominalism upon Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury. Attempts to view the Reformation as a reaction to late medieval Nominalism, or as essentially Nominalist itself, have not been too well received. One student of Cranmer's theology, G. W. Bromiley, declares that any Nominalism in Cranmer was unconscious. Cranmer himself, of course, denied that he founded his doctrine upon anything but Scripture and the Fathers. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000021891 |