Responsio ad Lutherum

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Responsio ad Lutherum is a book written in Latin in 1523 by Thomas More, asked for by Henry VIII of England, against the teachings of Martin Luther. [1] It was a response to Luther's 1522 tract Against Henry, King of the English which was itself a reaction to Henry's 1521 treatise Defence of the Seven Sacraments .

It was More's first major theological work. [2]

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References

  1. p.280, Thomas More, Richard Marius, 1984, J.M. Dent and Son
  2. Brian Gogan (1982). The Common Corps of Christendom: Ecclesiological Themes in the Writings of Sir Thomas More. BRILL. p. 2. ISBN   90-04-06508-3.