King's Good Servant but God's First

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ISBN: 9780898706253

ISBN-10: 0898706254

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Authors: James Monti

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Publication date: 10/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 497
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

James Monti is an author and historian who has contributed numerous articles to Catholic publications, including the monthly missal Magnificat. His other books include The King's Good Servant But God's First: The Life & Writings of St. Thomas More, The Week of Salvation and In the Presence of Our Lord.



Acknowledgments


Sources for Chapter Epigraphs


Introduction



More's Early Years



Spirituality of the More Household



Peace on the Eve of War: Christian Humanism in Pre-Reformation Europe



Excursus: The Church on the Eve of the Reformation



Dawn of the "New Men"



"That They May All Be One": Thomas More's Defense of the Unity of the Catholic Church



Scripture and the Church


The Bible and Tradition


The Translation of Sacred Scripture



Thomas More on the Life of Grace in the Church


The Sacraments


Baptism


The Sacrament of Penance


Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick) and Confirmation


The Sacrament of Matrimony


The Holy Eucharist


Holy Orders


Whether Women Can Celebrate Mass


Priestly Celibacy


The Liturgy


The Observance of Sunday


The Liturgy of Holy Week


On Liturgical Furnishings


On the Responsibilities of Homilists



The Sacramentals and Other Aspects of the Life of Grace


Holy Images


The Cross


On the Giving of Blessings


Relics


Pilgrimages


Miracles


Honoring the Saints


Angels


The Blessed Virgin Mary


Devotion to the Heart of Christ


Of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory


Mercy


Self-Denial


Faith, Reason, and Philosophy


Religious Life



The Four Last Things


The Human Side of Apologetical Writing


Interregnum: The Four Last Things



The "Great Matter"


His Majesty's Conscience


A Very Long Parliament



"To Bear the Cross with Christ": More's Inner Life in the Shadow of Death


A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation


More's Scriptural Annotations and Prayers



The Drama of the Passion in Thomas More's Last Writings


Treatise upon the Passion


A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord


De Tristitia Christi



July 6, 1535


A More Intimate "Dialogue of Comfort": More's Correspondence in the Tower


"Long I to Go to God": Trial and Execution


Epilogue: The Aftermath


Bibliography


Art Credits


Excerpt Credits


Index