Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26114-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought. Kainulainen argues that Sarpi was influenced by Neostoicism, Neoepicureanism and the sixteenth-century scientific revolution; that Sarpi was a fideist and Christian mortalist who, while critical of the contemporary Church of Rome, admired the purity of the early church. Focusing on Sarpi’s separation between church and state, his use of absolutism, divine right of kings and reason of state, the book offers a fresh perspective on medieval and reformation traditions. It will be of interest to those interested in early-modern intellectual history and the interplay between science, religion and politics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kainulainen, Jaska

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Sarpi’s Venice
3. Ubiquity of Motion
4. Postlapsarian man
5. Christian Mortalism
6. Servitude to God and State
7. Sovereignty, Obedience and Absolutism
8. The Interest of the State
9. Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jaska Kainulainen, Ph.D (2009), European University Institute of Florence, is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, department of history. His principal publications are “Libertas Ecclesiae in post-tridentine debates on church-state relations”, in Freedom and the construction of Europe, edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (Cambridge University Press 2013), “From sense perception to natural affection: Paolo Sarpi’s leap of faith”, in European Review of History, (2010) vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 5-25 and “Paolo Sarpi and the Colloquium Heptaplomeres”, in Beiträge zur Romanistik, band 12, hrsg. Von Karl F. Faltenbacher, Darmstadt 2009, pp. 239-258.