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Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 416 Seiten, Gewicht: 897 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Fifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform: The World of Nicholas Kempf


Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-90-04-09636-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 416 Seiten, Gewicht: 897 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

ISBN: 978-90-04-09636-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers


Fifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform argues that monastic theology offers a medieval Catholic paradigm distinct from the scholastic theology that has been the conventional source for medieval-oriented interpretations of Renaissance and Reformation. It is based on thorough study of the manuscript record.
Nicholas Kempf (ca. 1415-1497) taught at the University of Vienna before becoming the head of Carthusian monasteries in rural Austria and Slovenia. Faced with calls for reform in church and society, he placed his confidence in the patristic Christian idea of reform: the reform of the image of God in the human person. This contemplative monastic idea of reform depended on authoritative structures, especially the monastic rule and rational — yet divinely inspired — discernment by a spiritual director. What seemed like simpleminded submission to monastic structures was actually a way to avoid relying on human effort for salvation. By returning to one's true self (the image of God), one opened oneself up for genuine social relationships. To activist reformers, whether adherents of medieval scholasticism, Renaissance humanism, or modern Enlightenment, this monastic idea of reform has seemed escapist, backward-looking, and "womanish." Monks accepted these labels but read them as signs of hidden strength. This book attempts to read through monastic lenses.
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Dennis D. Martin (Ph.D. in History, University of Waterloo, Canada) is Associate Professor of historical theology at Loyola University, Chicago.


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