Lefèvre: Pioneer of Ecclesiastical Renewal in France

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W.E. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984 - Biography & Autobiography - 210 pages
Though ranked with Erasmus as one of the leading scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples has not received the scholarly attention due to a man of his intellectual stature and spiritual influence. Author has drawn on the original works and letters of Lefevre and his contemporaries in the ecclesiastical renewal movements in France and his influence on the thought of the Reformers. Hughes traces the transition from Lefevre's early career in philosophical and speculative studies to his single-minded concentration on scriptural exegesis and translation of the Bible into French. He presents in great detail the progression of Lefevre's thought, which blazed the trail that led from the Renaissance to the Reformation" -- From back cover.

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THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY
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THE ATTRACTIONS OF MYSTICAL THEOLOGY
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THE ASSERTION OF BIBLICAL AUTHORITY
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