'The oral versus the written': The debates over scripture in More and Tyndale

TY - JOUR

T1 - 'The oral versus the written'

T2 - The debates over scripture in More and Tyndale

AU - Cummings, Brian

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - The relationship between scripture and tradition has always been recognised as central to the controversy between More and Tyndale in the late 1520s and early 1530s. It was already one of the key issues in the English campaign against Luther instigated in 1521, and in the 1540s became one of the lynchpins of confessional identity both among Catholic theologians at Trent and in the English reformed articles of 1553. This is often seen as a doctrinal issue, but beneath the surface it can also be seen as part of a profound philosophical argument about the authority of oral and written evidence, an argument which goes back to the origins of Jewish and Christian religious practice and which continues to haunt the ecumenical concerns of today.

AB - The relationship between scripture and tradition has always been recognised as central to the controversy between More and Tyndale in the late 1520s and early 1530s. It was already one of the key issues in the English campaign against Luther instigated in 1521, and in the 1540s became one of the lynchpins of confessional identity both among Catholic theologians at Trent and in the English reformed articles of 1553. This is often seen as a doctrinal issue, but beneath the surface it can also be seen as part of a profound philosophical argument about the authority of oral and written evidence, an argument which goes back to the origins of Jewish and Christian religious practice and which continues to haunt the ecumenical concerns of today.

KW - Books

KW - Oral

KW - Scripture

KW - Speech

KW - Tradition

KW - Truth

KW - Written

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M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:70449914196

SN - 0047-8105

VL - 45

SP - 15

EP - 50

JO - Moreana

JF - Moreana

IS - 175

ER -