Alexander Ales
Alexander Ales | |
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Born | Alexander Alane 23 April 1500 |
Died | 17 March 1565 (aged 64) |
Occupation | Theologian |
Alexander Ales or Alexander Alesius (
Life
Originally Alexander Alane, he was born at
A sermon he preached before the
A reply to this by German
After a short stay at Lambeth Palace he was appointed, through the influence of Cromwell, then chancellor of the university, to lecture on theology at the Queens' College, Cambridge;[2] but when he had delivered a few expositions of the Hebrew psalms, he was prevented from continuing by the anti-Protestant party.
Returning to London he supported himself for some time by practising as a physician. In 1537 he attended a convocation of the clergy, and at the request of Cromwell Alesius debated with John Stokesley, Bishop of London, on the nature of the sacraments. His argument was published in 1544 under the title Of the auctorite of the word of god agaynst the bisshop of london wherein are conteyned certen disputacyons had in the parliament howse betwene the bisshops a bowt the nomber of the sacramen[n]ts and other things, very necessary to be known, made by Alexa[n]der Alane Scot and sent to the duke of Saxon.[1]
In 1539 Alesius was compelled to flee for a second time to Germany, as a result of Thomas Cromwell's fall from the King's favour and the enactment of the statute of the
Returning to
Works
His writings were both exegetical and controversial, but chiefly the latter. They include Expositio Libri Psalmorum Davidis (1550). His controversial works refer to such subjects as the translation of the Bible into the vernacular, against Servetus, etc.
Alesius published a large number of exegetical, dogmatic and polemical works, of which over twenty are mentioned by Bale in his List of English Writers. In his controversial works he upholds the synergistic views of the Scottish theologian
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ales, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 542–543. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Alesius, Alexander, alias Aless and Alane (ALSS500A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
References
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). "Alesius, Alexander". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
Further reading
- Chambers, Robert; Thomson, Thomas Napier (1857). . A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Vol. 1. Glasgow: Blackie and Son. pp. 41–42 – via Wikisource.
- Dickie, Robert J (2018). Alexander Alesius: Scotland's First International Reformer in Scotland's Debt to Martin Luther. Edinburgh: Scottish Reformation Society, pp. 72–104. ISBN 978-1-908727-13-8
External links
- The best early account of Alesius is the Oratio de Alexandra Alesio of Jacob Thomasius(April 1661), printed in the latter's Orationes (No. XIV., Leipzig, 1683) (Chisholm 1911).
- Alesius, Alexander in the Lutheran Cyclopedia
- Works by Alexander Ales at Post-Reformation Digital Library