Finding the Middle Way : The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

Finding the Middle Way : The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 579 p.
  • 言語 ENG
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基本説明

Can an orthodox Christian creed and ritual be combined with a liberal church administration and a tolerant civic acceptance of unorthodox views and practices? This question finds an affirmative answer in David's history of the Utraquist church of 15th- and 16th century Bohemia.

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Can an orthodox Christian creed and ritual be combined with a liberal church administration and a tolerant civic acceptance of not-so-orthodox views and practices? This question-perennial among Catholics for the past two centuries and the goal of the Anglican quest for a via media-finds an affirmative answer in Zdenek V. David's history of the Utraquist church of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bohemia. This church declared its autonomy from the Roman church in 1415 after the Bohemian preacher Jan Hus, who had decried clerical abuses and opposed the pope's doctrinal and juridical authority, was condemned by a Roman church council and executed. Sometimes called "Hussitist" (a usage David attacks for exaggerating Hus's role; "Utraquist" is the Latinized form of the Czech name it adherents used) this Bohemian church administered its institutions and educated and managed its clergy independently of Rome for the next two hundred years. David's book focuses on the middle course steered by the Utraquists after the onset of the Protestant Reformation. It rejected core Protestant beliefs, such as salvation by faith alone, and practices, going so far in emphasizing apostolic succession as to have its new priests ordained by Latin-rite or, in a few cases, Eastern-rite Uniate bishops. At the same time, the Utraquists pursued their orthodoxy by disputation rather than hurling anathemas and lived alongside Lutherans, the Unity of Brethren, and others. Ultimately the Utraquist church was reabsorbed into Roman Catholicism and its special features repressed in the Counter-Reformation.

Contents

Contents:1. The Travails of the Via Media: Historiography 2. A Prolegomenon: The First Century of Utraquism, 1415-1517 3. Utraquism's Curious Encounter with Luther 4. Bohuslav Bilejovsky and the Geography of Utraquist Ecclesiology 5. Pavel Bydzovsky and Utraquism's Second Confrontation with Luther 6. The Utraquist Consistory, the Archbishop of Prague, and a Brief Honeymoon 7. The Plebeianization of Utraquism: The Controversy over the Bohemian Confession of 1575 8. Orthodoxy and Toleration: The Utraquists and the Lutherans, 1575-1609 9. The Utraquists versus the Curia: Liberal or Authoritarian Church, 1575-1609 10. The Curia Tightens the Noose: The Advance of Confessionalization, 1575-1609 11. A Cohabitation of Convenience: The Utraquists and the Lutherans under the Letter of Majesty, 1609-1620 12. White Mountain, 1620: The Transfiguration and the Protean Legacy of UtraquismEpilog: The Meaning of the Bohemian Reformation