Shank Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand

Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna
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Verlag: De Gruyter
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Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris--among them Henry of Langenstein. Beginning with the 1384 revival, Michael Shank explores the history of the university and its ties with European intellectual life and the city of Vienna. In so doing he links the abstract discussions of university theologians with the burning of John Hus and Jerome of Prague at the Council of Constance (1415-16) and the destruction of the Jewish community of Lower Austria (1421).

Like most other scholars of the period, Henry of Langenstein (d. 1397) at one time believed that Aristotle's syllogistic was universally valid even in Trinitarian theology. In touch with the vibrant Jewish community in Vienna, Langenstein had high hopes of converting its members by logical argument. When he failed in his purpose, he lost his confidence in Aristotle's syllogistic as a universal tool of apologetics and handmaiden to Trinitarian theology. ("Unless you believe, you shall not understand," he quoted from Isaiah, in order to express his change of opinion.) During the next generation, the intellectual climate at the university changed from academic openness to increasing rigidity, and theologians turned from argument to persecution.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shank, Michael H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Apologetik, Kritik am Christentum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Bibliographic Abbreviations, pg. xv
Critical Symbols, pg. xvii
CHAPTER ONE. Vienna and the Rise of Its University, pg. 1
CHAPTER TWO. Intellectual Life in the Revived University, pg. 26
CHAPTER THREE. On Paralogisms in Trinitarian Doctrine (i): The Early Fourteenth Century, pg. 57
CHAPTER FOUR. Trinitarian Paralogisms Come to Vienna: Henry of Oyta and Henry of Langenstein, pg. 87
CHAPTER FIVE. On Paralogisms in Trinitarian Doctrine (p): The Viennese Students, pg. 111
CHAPTER SIX. Langenstein and the Viennese Jews, pg. 139
CHAPTER SEVEN. "Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand", pg. 170
Conclusion, pg. 201
APPENDIX. The Notebook of Johannes Bremis, pg. 205
Bibliography, pg. 221
Index, pg. 249