John Wyclif's Discourse on Dominion in Community

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16349-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

John Wyclif’s modern critics have found little in his works that justified his fame by the standards of intellectual history. This book reconstructs Wyclif’s discourse on the theological and political consequences of his radically new insight into the integrity of man and nature as regards the good, free and beautiful life, communicated to his contemporary scholastic and lay audience. His theological, legal and political vision of the opportunity to restore original justice through the spiritual reality and sanctity of persona humana in every man as well as in the community by the law of love and the use and enjoyment of dominion in community enfolds through abundant quotes from his works, justifying his fame at the time of the birth of the modern nation as the King of Philosophers and the Fifth Evangelist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boreczky, Elemér

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction: The Wyclif problem

1. Oxford as Wyclif’s nest of logic, nature, and metaphysics, and his five heresies taught there
2. Wyclif’s books and discourse on dominion
3. Dominion in community: the law of love
4. Tractatus de civili dominio I: how sin infects the body and soul of nature
5. Tractatus de civili dominio II: the opportunity to restore justice
6. Attempts to restore justice and natural dominion: the implementation of Wyclif’s theory in practice

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Über Autor(innen)

Elemér Boreczky, Ph.D. (2002) in cultural studies and theology, University of Glamorgan, Wales, teaches English cultural studies at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest. A former dissident, social worker and translator, he started a second life as a teacher and an academic in 1990. Taught at Rutgers University in 1997-99.