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This book investigates the intellectual career of Bishop John Fisher (1469-1535), the early sixteenth-century bishop of Rochester and victim of Henry VIII's Reformation, whose numerous writings included one of the most influential refutations of the century of Martin Luther. Richard Rex investigates the life and work of Fisher the scholar from his arrival in Cambridge in the 1480s to his prolonged literary campaign against Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon in the years 1527-31. He traces the intellectual influences of scholasticism and humanism in his education and his subsequent career, and the way in which Fisher attempted to cope with the tensions between the authority of the church and the critical implications of humanist study. The heart of the book is concerned with Fisher's most important works, his treatises against Luther and Oecolompadius in the 1520s. Rex draws attention to the perceptiveness and originality of his critique of Protestant doctrines, and attempts to restore one of the greatest intellectuals of early sixteenth-century England to his rightful place as a central figure in the scholarship of the age.

Catholics --- History --- 2 FISHER, JOHN C --- 230.22 "15" --- -Christians --- Godsdienst. Theologie--FISHER, JOHN C --- Katholieke dogmatische en systematische theologie--?"15" --- -Fisher, John Saint --- Catholic Church --- -Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Doctrines --- -History --- -2 FISHER, JOHN C --- -Godsdienst. Theologie--FISHER, JOHN C --- -Doctrines --- -230.22 "15" Katholieke dogmatische en systematische theologie--?"15" --- 2 FISHER, JOHN C Godsdienst. Theologie--FISHER, JOHN C --- Christians --- -Catholics --- 230.22 "15" Katholieke dogmatische en systematische theologie--?"15" --- Fisher, John, --- Fyscher, Joannes, --- Fysher, John, --- Ioannes, --- Roffen., Io. --- Roffensis, Ioannes, --- England --- Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535. --- Catholic Church - England - Doctrines - History - 16th century. --- Church of Rome --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Catholics - England - History - 16th century. --- FISHER (JOHN), 1469-1535 --- THEOLOGIE --- ANGLETERRE --- EGLISE CATHOLIQUE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- SPIRITUALITE --- BIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE --- VIE SPIRITUELLE --- 16E SIECLE --- 15E-16E SIECLES --- Vie intellectuelle