Chaucer, the Medieval Nominalist Doctrine of Justification, and the Reformation.

Author / Editor
Fesko, J. V.

Title
Chaucer, the Medieval Nominalist Doctrine of Justification, and the Reformation.

Published
In Ronald S. Baines, ed. By Common Confession: Essays in Honor of James M. Renihan (Palmdale, Calif.: Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2015), pp. 17-37.

Description
Argues that ClT allegorically "reveals key elements of a medieval doctrine of justification," reading Walter as God and Griselda as a "reformed sinner." The tale also "provides a window into how a number of key scriptural texts figured into this doctrine," and changing interpretations of these texts clarify how medieval and Reformation views on justification differ.

Contributor
Baines, Ronald S., ed.

Alternative Title
By Common Confession: Essays in Honor of James M. Renihan.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale