Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint John Fisher

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint John Fisher 6/23/2024.  John Fisher is usually associated with Erasmus, Thomas More, and other Renaissance humanists.

By papal bull dated 14 October 1504, Fisher was appointed the bishop of Rochester at the personal insistence of Henry VII

Fisher was "the first theologian to diagnose justification through faith alone as the founding dogma of the Protestant Reformation.

Erasmus said of John Fisher: "He is the one man at this time who is incomparable for uprightness of life, for learning and for greatness of soul

His life therefore, did not have the external simplicity found in the lives of some saints. Rather, he was a man of learning, associated with the intellectuals and political leaders of his day.

He was interested in the contemporary culture and eventually became chancellor at Cambridge. He had been made a bishop at 35, and one of his interests was raising the standard of preaching in England.

He was noted for his educational reforms, his preaching, and was said to have one of the finest libraries in Europe.

Bishop Fisher was chaplain and confessor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. It is believed that he was a tutor of Prince Henry, who would become King Henry VIII upon his father's death.