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Dean John Colet of St Paul's - Humanism and Reform in Early Tudor England (Paperback)
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Dean John Colet of St Paul's - Humanism and Reform in Early Tudor England (Paperback)
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This is an important and original biography of John Colet, the
leading humanist theologian in early Tudor England and the founder
of St Paul's School in London. The facts of John Colet's life,
spanning the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, appear
to portray a successful, humanist clerical reformer, active in
London on the eve of the English Reformation. In reality, as a
cleric, John Colet was neither successful nor a reformer, nor were
the reforms he attempted particularly welcome. His greatest
achievement, and lasting legacy, was the foundation of his school.
Thus, in the sphere of Christian humanist education, Colet was a
success. However, in all his dealings, Colet considered the
spiritual life to be of paramount importance and his ultimate aim
was the deification of sinful humanity, not just for a few
exceptional individuals, but for the entire Church. In this
respect, Colet's ecclesiastical vision did not effect any
significant change in the early sixteenth-century Church, although
it nevertheless pointed to the possibility of a more spiritual,
unified and holy Church. Colet was a passionate and pious man who
does not fall easily into any historical, intellectual or
ecclesiastical category. Ultimately, he escapes identification with
any other set of contemporaneous idealists because his vision was
his own. This study offers a timely re-assessment of the life of a
complex religious figure of pre-Reformation England.
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