The Real Presence of Mary: Eucharistic Disbelief and the Limits of Orthodoxy in Fourteenth-Century France

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-767
Author(s):  
Wendy Love Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Postpartum Depression ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Southern France ◽  
The Real ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Usual Formula

On July 15, 1318, a twenty-six-year-old laywoman named Aude Fauré was called before the Inquisition tribunal at the diocesan seat of Pamiers in southern France and immediately confessed to having temporarily doubted both the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the transubstantiation of bread and wine into Christ's body and blood; her doubt, she explained, had been cured by intervention from the Blessed Virgin. Less than a month later, Aude abjured her errors by the usual formula and was sentenced to a series of pilgrimages and fasts stretching over the next three years. Aude's multiple confessions, along with depositions from her family, friends, and neighbors, take up a mere six folio pages in the famously detailed Register kept by Bishop Jacques Fournier, head of the Pamiers tribunal, and preserved in the Vatican Library after Fournier became Pope Benedict XII. This relatively quick-moving and insignificant case seems unrelated to the best-known activity of Fournier's tribunal, namely, the extinction of the last vestiges of Occitan Catharism. Yet Aude's case has gleaned several mentions in recent historiographic works, and these mentions are striking for their focus on the protagonist's psyche: she has been variously diagnosed as hypersensitive, neurotic, masochistic, morbid, hysterical, obsessive, afflicted with atheism, prone to fantasy, tormented by guilt, suffering from postpartum depression, and simply deviant.

Kurshalten im Konflikt: Die an Wittenberg orientierten Siebenbürger Bekenntnisschriften und ihre Begutachtung an deutschen Universitäten (1557–1572)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Robert Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Lord's Supper ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Third ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
German Universities

Abstract Groups of pastors in Siebenbürgen issued three confessions of faith between 1557 and 1572 – the Consensus Doctrinae (1557), the Brevis Confessio (1561), and the Formula pii consensus (1572) – in which they defended their view of the Lord’s Supper in line with Wittenberg teaching against medieval teaching and against challenges from Swiss Reformed theologians. These documents reflect both conditions in Siebenbürgen and the streams of thinking in the wider environment of Luther’s and Melanchthon’s followers. The Brevis Confessio was published with memoranda from four German universities and letters from several theologians supporting its formulations. The first two documents largely tend toward Luther’s expression of the doctrine of the real presence, while the third uses language employed by both Wittenberg teachers, avoiding controversial expressions. This last confession strives toward consensus among the followers of the Wittenberg preceptors.

The real presence

1955 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
John Howat
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence

scholarly journals The Czech Nobility's Use of the Right of Patronage on Behalf of the Hussite Reform Movement

Slavic Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Southern France ◽  
The Right ◽  
Instrumental Role

Throughout European history the aristocracy has been involved in reform movements which undermined either ecclesiastical or monarchical power structures. Thus the nobles of southern France in the twelfth century granted protection to the Cathars, and in fourteenth-century England lords and knights offered aid to the Lollards. The support of German princes and knights for Lutheranism is well known, as is the instrumental role played by the French aristocracy in initiating the constitutional reforms which gave birth to that nation's eighteenth-century revolution. The fifteenth-century Hussite reform movement in Bohemia similarly received aid from the noble class. Here, when the Hussites were under attack in 1417 from the authorities, especially the archbishop, sympathetic lords protected Hussite priests on their domains.

The Doctrine of Transubstantiation in Durand's Rationale

Traditio ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 308-317
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Thibodeau
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
The Body ◽  
Final Word ◽  
The Real ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Fourth Lateran Council

In a recent article on the medieval dogma of transubstantiation, Gary Macy builds upon the works of Hans Jorissen and James F. McCue to question the validity of Jaroslav Pelikan's claim that “at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, the doctrine of the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist achieved its definitive formulation in the dogma of transubstantiation.” Macy demonstrates that through most of the thirteenth century, the majority of theologians did not, in fact, consider Lateran IV's decree the final word on eucharistic theology. The debate over precisely how the real presence of Christ occurred in the eucharist was far from closed.

La Espiritualidad eclesial de la Eucaristía, Corpus Christi

Augustinus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Vittorino Grossi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
The Real ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Human Condition

The article presents St. Augustine’s concept of the Eucharist, relating it to the ecclesiological dimension that the concept of corpus Christi can have, showing its link with the paupers, since the Incarnate Word became pauper when assuming the human condition. Reference is also made to the charitable work of Giacomo Cusmano (1804-1885), as well as medieval controversies about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and its evolution until the Second Vatican Council.

Animals in Religion

2014 ◽  
pp. 570-590
Author(s):  
Stephen R. L. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Religious Meaning

Both “animals” and “religion” are contentious concepts, with many possible meanings and associations. This chapter takes animals to be eukaryotes distinct from protists, plants and fungi, and “religion” as the attempt to “live a dream.” I describe four principal ways of dreaming animals: triumphalist humanism (for which only “human” beings are of any interest); traditional notions of good husbandry (which requires “human” beings to care for the non-human, within limits set by human interests); notions of metempsychosis and transformation (where “human” and “non-human” are constantly shifting characters); and awakening to the real presence of others, and so—paradoxically—evacuating them of merely “religious” meaning.

scholarly journals The ontological and epistemological problems of XX century Catholic philosophy in the context of natural sciences, in connection with the doctrine of transubstantiation

2015 ◽  
pp. 246-264
Author(s):  
Иван Ильич Бакулин
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Catholic Theological ◽  
Ordinary Teaching ◽  
The Catholic Church

На примере трудов Фомы Аквинского рассматриваются онтологические и гносеологические аспекты католического учения о реальном присутствии Христа в таинстве Евхаристии. Автор определяет причины, по которым данное учение оказалось проблемным для католической теологии XX века, и осуществляет обзор дискуссий в католическом теологическом сообществе, котоыре были посвящены попыткам согласовать современные данные естественных наук с классической тридентской евхаристической доктриной реального присутствия Христа в Святых Дарах. Также анализируются сильные и слабые стороны этих попыток в контексте ординарного учительства Католической церкви. The article deals with the ontological and epistemological aspects of the Catholic teaching on the real presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. It considers an explanation of these aspects in the writings of Thomas Aquinas and the reasons why this doctrine proved to be problematic for Catholic theology in the XX century. It reviews the discussions in the Catholic theological community, dedicated to modern attempts to reconcile the data of the natural sciences with the classical Tridentine Eucharistic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses of such attempts in the context of the ordinary teaching of the Catholic Church.

Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Parish
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Pierre Corneille ◽  
The Real ◽  
Lives Of Saints ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
The Subject

The most important verse paraphrase of the Imitation of Christ in 17th-century France was written by the dramatist Pierre Corneille. In his paratexts he discusses the difficulties he has encountered in the project, which expands on the original by including engravings, many of which illustrate episodes from the lives of saints. One such is Theodora, who is the subject of his closely contemporary martyr tragedy, Théodore. But here too he encountered difficulties, in the context of bienséance, from objections expressed to the prostitution with which the eponym is threatened. In a different idiom, the Jesuit priest Jean-Joseph Surin, seeing his role as exorcist as another kind of imitation of Christ, records his ordeal in two autobiographical works, one of which moves progressively into stylistic incoherence. Finally, Bossuet engages in the polemic surrounding a further possible implication of the term, in the form of the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence.

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