Events Tagged: "Thomas More"

St. Thomas More writing Utopia - attempting to show reason can grasp natural law - Two years before Luther - defending Aquinas's synthesis - 'The times are never so bad but that a good man can live in them'

St. Thomas More (age 39) already defending Catholic truth in England - Writes to Erasmus: 'As things are, the world is full of frenzy, and it seems to grow worse from day to day'

St. Thomas More writes against Luther - 'Luther has become intoxicated by his own novel ideas' - More identifies core problem: nominalism destroying objective truth

Beginning of English Reformation creates philosophical crisis - Henry VIII's break with Rome shatters unified Christian worldview - Sets stage for individual reason as new authority