The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson

by John J. Ryan

Overview

John J. Ryan provides a penetrating analysis of the events and motives that led the French theologian Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429) to become a leading figure in the medieval conciliarist movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780788504648
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/02/1998
Series:	An American Academy of Religion Book , #4
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Ryan convincingly demonstrates that Gerson's conciliarism was motivated primarily by a return to apostolic virtues of poverty, simplicity, and holiness; the newer ideas of democracy and representative government articulated by Marsiglius of Padua were not central to Gerson's agenda. His program of protest and renewal centers on a call to return to the 'apostolic life,' a concern that has found repeated expression in the church ever since the rise of monasticism and reached intense fervor in the fourteenth century. This book brings a fresh voice to conciliar studies with its nuanced understanding of the forces at work to end the papal schism."—Carl Volz, Luther Seminary

From the Publisher

Looks at the thought of Gerson (1363-1429) as part of the current search for medieval sources for aspects of the later Christian churches. Not a work of systematic, doctrinal, or constructive theology, but an investigation into the idea of Church itself and, more immediately and practically, the locus of Church authority in its vital functions. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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