High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-11099-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 886 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1619 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This volume reveals the political, religious, theological, institutional, and mythical ideals that formed the self-identity of the Augustinian Order from Giles of Rome to the emergence of Martin Luther. Based on detailed philological analysis, this interdisciplinary study not only transforms the understanding of Augustine's heritage in the later Middle Ages, but also that of Luther's relationship to his Order. The work offers a new interpretative model of late medieval religious culture that sheds new light on the relationship between late medieval Passion devotion, the increasing demonization of the Jews, and the rise of catechetical literature. It is the first volume of a planned trilogy that seeks to return late medieval Augustinian theology to the historical context of Augustinian religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saak, Eric Leland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Citation of Sources

Introduction: The Heart of the Matter

1. Power Politics and the Emergence of the Augustinian Platform: The Myth of Christendom
2. Creating Religious Identity: The Myth of Augustine
3. Precepts and Practice: Jordan of Quedlinburg and the Defining of Augustinian Life
4. Ethics and Erudition: The Theological Endeavor of the Augustinian Studia
5. Passion and Piety: Catechesis and The Power of Images in the Later Middle Ages
6. Between Reform and Reformation

Epilogue

Appendices
A. Terms, Concepts, and Definitions
B. Bonifacii VIII Bullae selectae spectantes ad ordinem eremitarum sancti Augustini
C. Augustini de Ancona Summe de potestate ecclesiastica Littera Dedicatoris et Tabula
D. Jordani de Quedlinburg Vita Sancti Augustini
E. Gregorii Ariminensis Ordinationes et Litterae
F. Jordani de Quedlinburg Meditationum de Passione Christi Momentum et Expositio Arboris eius

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

E.L. Saak, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Arizona, is currently a Visiting Instructor at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville. He has published extensively on the late medieval Augustinian tradition.