Jean Gerson - Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11296-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 966 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Posthumus Meyjes, G H M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of illustrations

Introduction

PART I. GERSON'S CHURCH POLITICS
1. Gerson and the ecclesiastical policy of the University of Paris until 1395
2. First years as Chancellor of the University, 1395-1398
3. On the basis of substraction, 1398-1403
4. Obedience restored, 1403-1406
5. On the way to the Council of Pisa, 1406-1408
6. Gerson and the Council of Pisa, 1409
7. From Pisa to the Council of Constance, 1409-1418

PART II. GERSON'S ECCLESIOLOGY
8. Church and Law
9. Church, Hierarchy, and General Council I: The treatise De potestate ecclesiastica et de origine iuris et legum
10. Church, Hierarchy, and General Council II: The essentials of Gerson's ecclesiology
11. Church, Scriptures, andTradition
12. The Sources of Gerson's ecclesiology

Conclusion

Appendices
I. The author of the treatise De concilio unius oboedientiae
II. The dating of the Liber de vita spirituali animae
III. Whom did Gerson hold up to Benedict XIII as a warning example in his sermon Apparuit gratia Dei
IV. The dating of the sermon Vade in pace

Abbreviations
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Biblical texts
Index of legal texts
Index of works of Gerson
Index of persons
Index of subjects, terms, and expressions

Über Autor(innen)

Guillaume H.M. Posthumus Meyjes, D.D. (1963), University of Leiden, is emeritus Professor in Church History at the same University. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and hon.dr. of the University of Geneva. He has published on Gerson, the Leiden University, the Walloon Church in the Netherlands, on Irenicism and Hugo Grotius.