Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
9-1-1957
Document Type
Article
Keywords
robert barnes, england, henry viii, lutheran, wittenberg, theology, reformers, schmalkaldic, tyndale, augsburg, cromwell, wolsey, anglican
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
From the year 1521, when Henry VIII attacked the theology of Martin Luther in his celebrated Assertio septem sacramentorum, to 1540, when he reiterated his theological Romanism by ordering the execution of Thomas Cromwell and Dr. Robert Barnes, English policy respecting Lutheranism went full cycle. Between those dates on which the conservative position of Henry VIII was so emphatically stated, the king of England departed from orthodoxy and came very near to espousing the theology of the Lutheran reformers of Wittenberg, Germany. The royal dalliance with heresy during those years was not unconnected with the king's success in securing his divorce, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the title "Supreme Head, under Christ, of the Church of England.''
Disciplines
History of Christianity
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Tjernagel, N. S.
(1957)
"Robert Barnes and Wittenberg,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 28, Article 47.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol28/iss1/47
