The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson

ISBN-13: 9780788504648 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 96 str.

John J. Ryan

Opis

John J. Ryan provides a penetrating analysis of the events and motives that led the French theologian Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429) to become a leading figure in the medieval conciliarist movement.

Recenzje

Ryan convincingly demonstrates that Gerson's conciliarism was motivated primarily by a return to apostolic virtues of poverty, simplicity, and holiness; the newer ideas of democracy and representative government articulated by Marsiglius of Padua were not central to Gerson's agenda. His program of protest and renewal centers on a call to return to the 'apostolic life,' a concern that has found repeated expression in the church ever since the rise of monasticism and reached intense fervor in the fourteenth century. This book brings a fresh voice to conciliar studies with its nuanced understanding of the forces at work to end the papal schism.