Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271027061 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. He overcame his modest beginnings to become a scholastic and vernacular theologian, a university intellectual, and a church reformer. His courageous effort to renew the unity of a unique civilization bears examination in our own time.. Through these key moments, we see the deeper undercurrents of his mystical writings. 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 pre
Most recently, he edited and translated the volume Jean Gerson: Early Works (1998).. Brian Patrick McGuire is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of History and Social Theory at Roskilde University in Denmark. His books include Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350&
You Can't Keep A Good Man Down Thomas J. Burns What exactly has Brian McGuire accomplished here? [1] He has produced a first rate biography of one of Catholicism's most controversial medieval minds. [2] He has shed light upon Jean Gerson's major contributions to Catholic philosophy and moral theology. [3] He has provided a colorful and insightful vision of Church, university, and civic life at the turn of the fifteenth century. [4] He has done the above in a prose style that seamlessly integrates multiple languages, primary sources, and flowing narrative. Other readers will no doubt fault me for neglecting the author's treatment of contemporary spirituality and church
He has assembled a vast amount of information into a coherent narrative. It is the benchmark for further work on the great Chancellor.”—Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago “Jean Gerson was an idealist, Brian McGuire writes, ‘and idealists do not usually do well in the history books.’ But this book is an exception, for McGuire gives us a compelling portrait of this severe and lonely man who may, nonetheless, have been his era’s most effective champion of rational discourse, peaceful reform, and internati