Thomas Bradwardine: Defender of God’s Sovereignty
This article examines Thomas Bradwardine, a 14th-century Oxford theologian whose work *De Causa Dei* vigorously defended God's absolute sovereignty and predestination against the semi-Pelagian errors of his time. Griess presents Bradwardine as a medieval precursor to the Reformed emphasis on sovereign grace, demonstrating how this "Profound Doctor" positioned himself as a defender of God's supremacy in an intellectual climate that exalted human free will and autonomy.
It is always a wonderful thing to find another who loves the sovereignty of God as the truth of God revealed in Scripture. It is especially wonderful to find such in the Middle Ages. Thomas Bradwardine, though little known, is such a man. If Gottschalk is rightly remembered in particular for his defense of sovereign predestination in the Middle Ages, Bradwardine ought to be remembered for his defense of the absolute sovereignty of God during the same era.1 Bradwardine was born in England...
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