Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism

ISBN-13: 9781032051970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Ulrich L. Lehner

Opis

This volume demonstrates that the Catholic rhetoric of tradition disguised both novelties and creative innovations between 1550 and 1700. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Innovation and Creativity in Early Modern Catholicism  2. The Rhetoric of Innovation and Constancy in Early Modern Catholicism  3. Catholic Theology and Doctrinal Novelty in the Quarrel over Grace: Theological schools, innovations, and pluralism during the Molinism Controversy  4. Faithfulness and Novelty in Early Modern Thomism: The Dionysian Dimension of Physical Predetermination  5. The Innovative Character of the Suárezian Project in its Proper Historical Context  6. New Models of Church Government: Innovation in Catholic Ecclesiology, ca. 1600–1800  7. At the Fringes of the Church: The Ecclesial Status of Heretics and their Baptized Children in Early Modern Ecclesiology  8. The Invention of Probabilism  9. Natural Law and Cultural Difference: innovations in Spanish scholasticism  10. Duns Scotus and the Making of Modern Catholic Theology  11. The Invention of Early Modern Mariology

O autorze

Ulrich L. Lehner is the William K. Warren Foundation Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has published more than twenty volumes on early modern history and the history of religion including Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism (Routledge, 2018) and his writings have been translated into seven languages.