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| Thomas Cranmer | Aug 19 2010, 09:13 AM Post #1 |
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[align=center]![]() THOMAS CRANMER ![]() * I want to be in the light as you are in the light. I want to shine like the stars in the heavens. Oh Lord, be my light! And be my salvation! All I want is to be in the light. . HEY THERE. THE NAME IS MATT, AND I AM 31. I'VE BEEN ROLEPLAYING FOR ABOUT 18 YEARS AND MY OTHER CHARACTERS WOULD BE MATTHEW FITZALAN. I FOUND FKAC AT A SEEDY LITTLE BAR AFTER SHE'D HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK. OH, BY THE WAY, I READ THE RULES. WANT PROOF? THE CODE WORD IS PUMPERNICKEL WANT TO REACH ME? HERE'S MY IM: HYWASAINT@AOL.COM (AIM) [/align]Cranmer was born in 1476 in Aslockton in Nottinghamshire, England. His parents, Thomas and Agnes (née Hatfield) Cranmer, were of modest wealth and were not members of the aristocracy. Their oldest son, John, inherited the family estate, whereas Thomas and his younger brother Edmund were placed on the path to a clerical career. The beneficiary of nothing better than a grammar school in his native village, young Thomas developed an early love for knowledge, and thirsted for something better than the few sparse books and lackadaisical. At the age of fourteen, two years after the death of his father, he was sent to the newly created Jesus College, Cambridge. It took him a surprisingly long eight years to reach his Bachelor of Arts degree following a curriculum of logic, classical literature, and philosophy. Thomas wanted to devour everything he could before completing his studies, took his time, and felt a definite calling towards theology, if one of a humanist and nascently reformist bent. During this time he began to collect medieval scholastic books, which he preserved faithfully throughout his life. For his Master’s degree, he took a different course of study based upon his new and thrilling emphasis, concentrating on the humanists, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Erasmus. This time he progressed with no special delay, finishing the course in three years. Shortly after receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1502, he was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College. Within weeks of attaining his MA, he married a woman with whom he had fallen in love while a student in Cambridge, the daughter of a local inkeeper where he had lodgings ... a girl named Joan. Although he was not yet a priest, he was forced to forfeit his fellowship, resulting in the loss of his residence at Jesus College. Finding no fault in a man of God taking a woman to wife, he willingly sacrificed his scholastic career for Joan. In order to support himself and his wife, he took a job as a reader at another college. When Joan died during her first childbirth, Jesus College showed its regard for Cranmer, who had been a star pupil and model instructor, by reinstating his fellowship. He began studying theology and by 1508 he had received holy orders, the university already having named him as one of their preachers. He received his doctorate of divinity in 1510. During his explorations into the intricacies of Scripture and the true nature of God, Thomas gained an appreciation for the intellectual glow of reformation which was lighting the Continent in renewed spiritual scholarship. A firm believer in the humanist trail blazed by his forebearers such as Sir Thomas More, Cranmer found between the pages of Biblical commentary and exegesis, staying up many a late night with his close friends and fellow men of letters Edward Lee, Stephen Gardiner, and Richard Sampson. Thomas and Stephen in particular were often on the opposite end of arguments, especially those concerning the nature of man (whether it be naturally good or naturally evil), the attainment of grace (whether it be by faith or works), and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (of which Thomas had very early doubts), but they took to it with friendly banter rather than rancor. In these pursuits he has cultivated a first rate mind, one which now turns towards doing a better service for his God and his country. His wife dead, his fellowship in Cambridge having yielded most of the benefit its fertile fields of academia had to offer, Thomas turns an eye towards London, and Whitehall ... and Wolsey. Every man of the cloth knows that he is the one to go to for advancement and opportunity. Loathe as Thomas is to delve into a political landscape which he blames for the corruption of the Church over the centuries, he will submit even to the licentiousness of Hampton Court if it means an opportunity to advance the Kingdom of God. And so, he goes ... |
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| Catherine Willoughby | Aug 19 2010, 09:15 AM Post #2 |
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