Author : Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004112964
This study provides a new insight in the development and background of the church-political and ecclesiological ideas of the famous chancellor of the Paris University, Jean Gerson (1363-1429).
Author : G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004474544
The first part of this study on the famous chancellor of the Paris University, contains a chronological survey of Gerson's position in the development of the church-politics of his days. It is shown how he became a convinced adherent of a conciliar solution of the Western schism, without betraying the idea of the Church as hierarchical entity. In the second part his ecclesiological ideas are treated more systematically. Gerson's critical attitude towards canon lawyers and papal absolutism is examined, followed by an analysis of the background of his ideas about the Church as hierarchy and as mystical body, his conciliar thought, his concept of tradition, and his sources. The author tries to make clear that Gerson, far from being a radical, rather should be considered as a careful and conservative theologian. The book comprises a revised and extended version of an originally in Dutch written thesis, for which the author was awarded the Mallinckrodt-prize of the University of Groningen.
Author : Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9047409078
The Companion to Jean Gerson provides a guide to new research on Jean Gerson (1363-1429), theologian, chancellor of the University of Paris, and church reformer. Ten articles outline his life and works, contribution to lay devotion, place as biblical theologian, role as humanist, mystical theology, involvement in the conciliar movement, dilemmas as university master and conflicts with the mendicants, views on women and especially on female visionaries, participation in the debate on the "Roman de la Rose", and the afterlife of his works until the French Revolution. Some of the contributors are veterans of gersonian studies, while others have recently completed their dissertations. All map the relevance of Gerson to understanding late medieval and early modern culture, religion and spirituality.
Author : N. McLoughlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1137488832
Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts.
Author : J.P. Heering
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047404882
This study presents a new analysis of the historical meaning of Grotius’ apologetic work. It means to answer two chief questions: what were Grotius' motives to write this work, and what sources did he use?
Author : Willem van Asselt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004475842
This volume deals with the Federal theology of Johannes Cocceius, who lived in the seventeenth century (1603-1669). German by birth, he taught at Bremen, Franeker and Leiden, where he was Professor of Theology (1650-1669). As foremost biblical interpreter he sought to formulate a Covenant theory which described all of human history by introducing the structure of consecutive covenants or foedera. The book poses a surprising alternative to the readings of earlier scholarship on Cocceius by its careful presentation of the pneumatological components of the doctrine of covenants. Cocceius' Federal theology was of considerable importance in the theological and political history of Europe and the United States and formes the framework for much of the Reformed theology in the past three centuries.
Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108831796
Explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, addressing arguments that people at the time found convincing.
Author : Virpi Mäkinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2006-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1402042124
Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms of moral and political thought, and the struggle for a modern way of life seems for many synonymous with the fight for a universal recognition of equal, individual human rights. Where did modern rights language come from? What kinds of rights discourses is it rooted in? What is the specific nature of modern rights discourse; when and where were medieval and ancient notions of rights transformed into it? Can one in fact find any single such transformation of medieval into modern rights discourse? This book brings together some of the most central scholars in the history of medieval and early-modern rights discourse. Through the different angles taken by its authors, the volume brings to light the multifaceted nature of rights languages in the medieval and early modern world.
Author : Barry Howson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004474226
England in the mid-seventeenth-century saw the emergence of numerous religious sects, one of which were the Calvinistic Baptists. During this revolutionary era this group was often accused of heresy by their Reformed contemporaries. At that time Hanserd Knollys, one of the key spokesmen for this body, was personally charged with holding heterodox beliefs, in particular, Antinomianism, Anabaptism and Fifth Monarchism. In addition, subsequent historians have been compelled to defend Knollys against the charge of hyper-Calvinism. All of these charges are serious, and consequently bring into question Knollys' basic orthodoxy. This book systematically examines each of these charges against Knollys by looking at them in their broader historical context, and then comprehensively examining them from Knollys' writings to determine if they are indeed valid. Along the way Knollys' soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology receive vital and needed elucidation.
Author : James (Jim) Mixson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9047427513
Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a new account of the origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both beyond and within the religious orders, in the era of the Council of Constance. Focusing on reform among monks and canons in Bavaria and Austria to 1450, it then shows how those ideas were applied in practice, through reforming visitation and through a devotional culture steeped in the “new piety” of the day. These considerations allow the Observant Movement to offer fresh perspectives on the history religious community, reform, and the church in the fifteenth century.
