変革期とトマス・モア

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The life of Thomas More corresponded with the Period of Change which, bringing the Modern Age into being, should be supposed to have started on a full scale with the advent of the Reformation. The object of this article is to show the influence of the latter exerted upon the former. The part of his life, which extended to about the end of 1510's, was the one as a reformer-exactly speaking, as a humanistic reformer-whose ideal was needless to say to be given expression in his masterpiece "Utopia". But with the coming up of Luther and his reforming movement took his standpoint a new turn ; he was converted from a reformer to a conservative who fought resolutely against the heretics as a champion of the Catholic Church. It must be added, however, that More was not a mere conservative because, under impetus from Lutheranism and from the trend of separating the English Church from Rome, he was led to the due recognition of the essence of Catholicism to which he remained to be faithful up to the end of his life. It meant that the Catholic Church was an organization rising above the nations and the peoples to make up Europe which was very appropriate to be called Christendom. If the Reformation made him possible to understand the most important side of the Old Church, and if the Reformation was nothing but an event telling us the very commencement of the Period of Change, we can get to a conclusion that More was affected to a great extent by the particular conditions of the period during which he passed his life.
愛知学院大学の論文
1984-08-30

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