Metaphysics in the Reformation

The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-726693-9
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: British Academy Monographs

This monograph bridges two discourses that so far have remained largely separate: debates about how and why secular modernity emerged, and Reformation studies. In telling the history of secularity, scholars have often focussed on late medieval shifts concerning the God-world-relationship (metaphysics). But how does the Reformation fit into this history? This book answers this question by investigating the implied metaphysics of the Reformation.

To do so, it first proposes a new approach for studying the God-world-relationship in works which are not explicitly metaphysical, which is the case for most Reformation sources. Secondly, it applies this methodology to the work of one lesser known, but important reformer, Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499 - 1562), concluding that his work simultaneously inhabits two different models of understanding the God-world-relationship. The book concludes by highlighting the significance of this finding for understanding the Reformation and its place in the history of secularity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aspray, Silvianne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

Silvianne Aspray (née Bürki) is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge in 2018.