The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe

A Lasting Heritage
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-33577-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Mario Biagioni presents an account of the lives and thoughts of some radical reformers of the sixteenth century, showing that the Radical Reformation played a pivotal role in the rise of modern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biagioni, Mario

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Chapter I A broader vision of the Radical Reformation. Some historiographical remarks

1.1 Bainton, Cantimori and “Eretici italiani del Cinquecento”
1. 2 The Radical Reformation in the historiography of the second half of twentieth century.
1. 3 A broader vision of the Radical Reformation.

Chapter II Travellers of utopia: the other Europe of the Italian exiles religionis causa

2.1 Travellers of Utopia
2.2 Parallel escapes: Pietro Martire Vermigli and Bernardino Ochino
2.3 The hard choice of Fausto Sozzini.
2.4 Francesco Pucci and the realistic utopia.

Chapter III Toleration and Adam’s immortality: a particular example of the relationship between Locke and the Socininians

3.1 Immortality of Adam and wideness of the kingdom of God in Locke’s writings.
3.2 Adam, Locke and the Socinians.
3.3 The debate between Fausto Sozzini and Francesco Pucci on the Adam’s immortality.
3.4 The issue of Adam’s immortality in the Socinian thought after Fausto Sozzini.
3.5 Immortality of Adam, salvation of mankind and toleration: what relationship?

Chapter IV Infinite mercy and infinite universe: Francesco Pucci and Giordano Bruno

4. 1 The infinite amplitude of the kingdom of God.
4. 2 Erasmian affinities: Francesco Pucci and Giordano Bruno.
4. 3 A lasting heritage: a brief history of the Puccianism in the seventeenth century.

Chapter V Christian Francken sceptical: the origins of the sixteenth-century scepticism.

5. 1 The descent of Christian Francken “in immensum”.
5. 2 Christian Francken and the criterion of truth.
5.3 Christian Francken and the “Dispute between a philosopher and a theologian on the uncertainty of Christian religion”
5.4 Christian Francken and the sixteenth-century origins of the treatise “De tribus impostoribus”

Chapter VI Conclusions

6.1 The Radical Reformation and the Making of Modern Europe
6.2 Secularism
6.3 Toleration and rationalism
6.4 The break of Modernity


Bibliography

Index of names

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Biagioni is an independent scholar and teacher of Latin and Italian Literature at an Italian secondary school. He has published several monographs and articles on the Radical Reformation, including Christian Francken e la crisi intellettuale della Riforma (Storia e Letteratura, 2014).