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, England, date uncertain – 1572 or 1577 at
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) was an English Catholic theologian and controversialist. Exiled from England under the
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, Dorman became a thought leader among the
recusants Recusancy (from ) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation. The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, and temporarily repea ...
, and was an early member of the English College at Douai.


Life

Dorman received his early education through his uncle, Thomas Dorman of
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(now Amersham),
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. His master at Berkhampstead was Richard Reeve, a noted Protestant schoolmaster. He was also known to
Thomas Harding Thomas Harding (born 1448 in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England and died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, wa ...
, the Catholic scholar, then professor of Hebrew at Oxford, who took great interest in the boy and sent him to
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in 1547. From Winchester Dorman went to
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, of which Harding was a fellow, and here he was elected a probationer fellow. Under
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, Dorman was appointed fellow of
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(1554), and, on 9 July 1558, took the degree
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A year or two after
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's accession, finding that he could not live in England without conforming to the
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, he gave up his fellowship and his patrimony and went to
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, where he met Harding who was also in exile. Harding persuaded him to resume his studies, and Dorman accordingly went to the
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and devoted himself to the study of theology. In 1565, Dorman became B.D. in the
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and finally received the doctorate there. During this period he engaged in controversy with the Anglican divines
John Jewel John Jewel (''alias'' Jewell) (24 May 1522 – 23 September 1571) of Devon, England was Bishop of Salisbury from 1559 to 1571. Life He was the youngest son of John Jewel of Bowden in the parish of Berry Narbor in Devon, by his wife Alice Bel ...
,
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and
Alexander Nowell Alexander Nowell (13 February 1602), also known as Alexander Noel, was an Anglican priest and theologian who served as Dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign, and is now remembered for his catechisms, written in Latin. Early lif ...
, Dean of St. Paul's. Alongside other recusant writers such as Harding, Thomas Stapleton, John Martiall, William Allen, Richard Shacklock, Nicholas Sander,
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, and
John Rastell John Rastell (or Rastall) (c. 1475 – 1536) was an English printer, author, member of parliament, and barrister. Life Born in Coventry, he is vaguely reported by Anthony à Wood to have been "educated for a time in grammaticals and philosophi ...
, Dorman protested the treatment of English Catholics, and argued for the authority of the Catholic Church over temporal monarchs. Dorman's other controversies included defending the Catholic doctrine of
transubstantiation Transubstantiation (; Greek language, Greek: μετουσίωσις ''metousiosis'') is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of sacramental bread, bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and ...
against its Anglican critics, and criticizing actors for popularizing Protestantism. In 1569, at the invitation of Cardinal William Allen, Dorman joined the newly founded English College at Douai, which he assisted both by his services and his private means. He died at Tournai where he had been given an important benefice.


Works

His works are: *''A proufe of certeyne articles in Religion denied by M. Juel'' (Antwerp, 1564); *''A Disproufe of M. Nowelle's Reproufe'' (Antwerp, 1565); *''A Request to Mr. Jewel that he keep his promise made by solemn Protestation in his late Sermon at Paul's Cross'' (London, 1567; Louvain, 1567).


References

;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorman, Thomas 1570s deaths People from Berkhamsted People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford 16th-century English theologians English Roman Catholics Year of birth unknown