Thomas Stapleton (theologian)

Thomas Stapleton (* July 1535 in Menfield, Sussex, † October 12, 1598 in Leuven ) was an English theologian and controversial writer.

Life

Stapleton studied at the universities of Canterbury, Winchester and Oxford. In 1558 he was ordained a priest and was appointed canon of the cathedral of Chichester. Already in 1556 he was at New College Oxford Master of Arts become. In 1559, he stayed to study the Greek language at the universities of Louvain and Paris.

Under Queen Mary Tudor he was canon of Chichester, after the accession of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor he refused the oath of supremacy, and left England in 1563. 1569 called him William Allen at the first English seminary in Douai. There he taught theology for many years, in 1590 he received the Spanish king Philip II a professor of theology at Louvain. He was a prolific writer and defended the authority of the Church to fully recognize, without the supremacy of the Pope. His work " Tres Thomae " ( 1588) was about Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More.

Works (selection)

  • Promptuarium morale super Evangelia Dominicalia. Vidua [ Plantini ] & Moretus, Antwerp 1593rd
  • Tres Thomae. 1588th
  • Vita Thomae Mori. Minerva -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1964, ISBN 3-86598-176-3 ( Nachdr d ed Frankfurt / M. 1689).
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