Humanism, Reform and the Reformation The Career of Bishop John Fisher Bradshaw

Humanism, Reform and the Reformation The Career of Bishop John Fisher Bradshaw

Humanism, Reform and the ReformationThe Career of Bishop John Fisher\nAuthor(s): Brendan Bradshaw, Eamon Duffy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521099660, 978-0521099660\nSynopsis\nThis book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to an aspect of Fisher's multifaceted career or to exploring the intellectual and religious outlook of someone who was at the same time a moderniser, a reformer and an opponent of the Reformation. John Fisher's career provides an illuminating perspective on English religious and intellectual history in a crucial phase of development. As a churchman he became the foremost preacher in England, issuing a call to ecclesiastical reform and personal repentance that echoed the call of Savonarola at Florence. At the same time he provides an early example of the pastoral bishop that was to become the ideal of both the Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Finally in th.

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