5 March 1518 A.D. Thomas More learned of Luther’s 95 Theses from Erasmus, an old hand, former Cambridge Professor, and drifter on the Continent.
5 March 1518 A.D. Thomas More learned of Luther’s 95 Theses from Erasmus, an old hand, former Cambridge Professor, and drifter on the Continent. Clebsch, William. England’s Earliest Protestants: 1520-1535. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964. It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Englands-earliest-Protestants-1520-1535-publications/dp/B0007DK7XA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377565405&sr=8-1&keywords=william+clebsch+england%27s+earliest+protestants More’s involvements. Beyond Fisher, Thomas More replied to Johannes Bugenhagen’s open and publicized letter to Englishmen, albeit done in Latin. Prof. Clebsch again notes that More may have been the “ghost writer” of Henry’s Assertio. On 5 March 1518, More learned of Luther’s 95 Theses from Erasmus, an old hand, former Cambridge Professor, and academic-drifter-publisher (of international fame) on the Continent. More began his studies of Luther. ...