Cornelius Henrici Hoen (Honius) and His Epistle on the Eucharist (1525)

Medieval Heresy, Erasmian Humanism, and Reform in the Early Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15464-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 119, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This book is about Cornelius Henrici Hoen and his well-known treatise on the Eucharist, published in 1525, and answers questions like: Who actually was Hoen? What made him dissent from the current belief in transubstantiation? What were the sources of his dissent, and what was his relationship to famous contemporaries like Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli and Bucer? And how influential has his treatise been?
After a more detailed portrait of Hoen’s life, the chapters on the origins of his ideas establish that Hoen was not only dependent on Erasmus and Luther, but actually revived age-old heretical arguments, first proposed in the high Middle Ages and later defended by Hus and Wyclif, and popularized by Lollards and Hussites in the late medieval Burgundian Netherlands. The book also describes Hoen’s influence on Reformation thought, and contains an edition of the original Latin text and of a contemporary German translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spruyt, Bart Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. The Hoen problem: Albert Hardenberg’s Vita Wesseli Groningensis and Cornelius Henrici Hoen’s fortuna critica
II. Hoen’s life and its historical setting: his friends and his trial
III. The Epistola christiana admodum: contents, sources and historical background
IV. The impact of Hoen’s Epistola christiana

Epilogue

Appendices
1. The Latin text of Hoen’s Epistola christiana
2. The German translation of Hoen’s Epistola christiana (Augsburg, 1526)

Bibliography
Index of personal names

Über Autor(innen)

Bart J. Spruyt, Ph.D. (1996) in History, has published extensively on the history of christian humanism in the Netherlands, and on the political philosophy of conservatism. From 1994 he has been working as a political journalist and as the director of the Edmund Burke Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in The Hague.