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This book contains three works by Thomas More. The first, More's Latin
reply to Bugenhagen (1526), given here with facing English translation, is a
rebuttal of the principal points of Lutheran teaching concerning scripture and
tradition, faith and works, grace and free will, clerical celibacy, and the
sacraments. It presents arguments elaborated at much greater length in More's
other polemical works. "Supplication of Souls" (1529) refutes "A Supplication
for the Beggars", an anticlerical pamphlet by Simon Fish which Henry VIII seems
to have regarded with some favour. More places his response in the mouths of
the souls in purgatory. In the first book, he demolishes Fish's loose railery
with accurate statistics and historical analysis. In the second, he defends the
traditional doctrine of purgatory with arguments drawn from reason and an
analysis of scriptural passages. "Letter Against Frith" (1532) answers John
Frith's Zwinglian arguments against the physical presence of Christ in the
eucharist. Written to an unknown correspondent, it is the briefest and mildest
of More's polemical works. This volume also contains seven appendices giving the works to which More
is replying and other thematic, historical, and bibliographical matter closely
related to the three works by More. Contains three works by Thomas More. The first is a rebuttal of the main
points of Lutheran teaching, whilst the second refutes "A Supplication of
Beggars", an anticlerical pamphlet by Simon Fish. The third answers John
Frith's arguments against the physical presence of Christ in the eucharist.
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