A Companion to Jean Gerson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Jean Gerson write by Brian Patrick McGuire. This book was released on 2018-11-12. A Companion to Jean Gerson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guide to the life and writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429) provides the reader with a state-of-the-art evaluation of the place of this central theologian and church reformer in the transition from medieval to early modern culture, spirituality and religion.
Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation
Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation write by Brian Patrick McGuire. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portrait of Gerson as a voice of reason and Christian humanism during a time of great intellectual and social tumult in the late Middle Ages. Born to a peasant father and mother in the county of Champagne, Gerson (1363-1429) was the first of twelve children. He overcame his modest beginnings to become a scholastic and vernacular theologian, a university intellectual, and a church reformer. McGuire shows us the turning points in Gerson's life, including his crisis of faith after becoming chancellor of the University of Paris in 1395. Through these key moments, we see the deeper undercurrents of his mystical writings. With their rich display of spiritual and emotional life, these writings were to earn Gerson the appellation "doctor christianissimus." In turn, they would influence many later thinkers, including Nicholas of Cusa, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis de Sales, and even Martin Luther. Gerson is a man perhaps easier to admire than to love: conscientious to a fault, at once a pragmatist and an idealist in church politics, a university intellectual who both fostered and distrusted the religious aspirations of the laity, a powerful prelate who moved among the great yet never forgot his peasant origins, a self-revealing yet intensely private man who yearned for intimacy almost as much as he feared it. McGuire ably situates Gerson in the context of his age, an age replete with doctrinal controversies and the politics of papal schism on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Gerson emerges as a proponent of dialogue and discussion, committed to reforming the church from within. His courageous effort to renew the unity of a unique civilization bears examination in our own time.
A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)
A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) write by . This book was released on 2009-09-30. A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The division of the Church or Schism that took place between 1378 and 1417 had no precedent in Christianity. No conclave since the twelfth century had acted as had those in April and September 1378, electing two concurrent popes. This crisis was neither an issue of the authority claimed by the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor nor an issue of authority and liturgy. The Great Western Schism was unique because it forced upon Christianity a rethinking of the traditional medieval mental frame. It raised question of personality, authority, human fallibility, ecclesiastical jurisdiction and taxation, and in the end responsibility in holding power and authority. This collection presents the broadest range of experiences, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim. Theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance all receive attention.
Jean Gerson and Gender
Jean Gerson and Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jean Gerson and Gender write by N. McLoughlin. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Jean Gerson and Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden
A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden write by Maria H. Oen. This book was released on 2019-06-07. A Companion to Birgitta of Sweden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ten scholars offer a comprehensive introduction to one of the most celebrated visionaries of the Middle Ages. The essays focus on Birgitta as an author, the reception of her writings, and the history of her religious order.
