The Charges of Lutheranism Brought Against Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples (1520–1529)

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Jacques Lefevre D'etaples

Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples fell under the suspicious attention of the Sorbonne in 1514 when he was implicated in the defense of Johannes Reuchlin before that body. Under the assiduous promotion of its Syndic, Natalis Beda, suspicion was soon transformed into an overt attack on Lefèvre's orthodoxy. In 1520 a turning point was reached. Whereas, before, he had been attacked because of deviations arising chiefly out of his own individual approach to the Bible, in this new stage he was to be charged with Lutheranism. It is the purpose of this article to examine these later charges, the grounds alleged in justifying them, and how they came to be preferred. It will be necessary at the same time to examine, or rather reexamine, the words of Lefèvre which evoked them.

Renaissance Attitudes to New Testament Apocryphal Writings: Jacques Lèfevre d'Étaples and His Epigones

1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1169-1198
Author(s):  
Irena Backus
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Subsequent Publication ◽  
Jacques Lefevre D'etaples ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe standard medieval view of New Testament Apocrypha was that they were Christian writings (related to matters treated in the canonical books of the Bible), which had to be treated with caution and often dismissed as heretical. A list of the Apocrypha figured in the [Pseudo-]Gelasian Decree. In the Renaissance, for authors such as Lèfevre d'Etaples, Nicholas Gerbel and many others, the term assumed a multiplicity of meanings, both positive and negative. This article shows that although no attempts were made in the early 16th century to bring N. T. Apocrypha together into a corpus, the editors' ambivalent and complex attitude to texts such as the Laodiceans or Paul's Correspondence with Seneca led to their definitive marginalisation and encouraged their subsequent publication (by Fabricius and others) as corpora of dubious writings.

“Without Shedding of Blood Is No Remission”

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
The Bible

As everyone soon learned in this war, anything could happen in battle. Strategies went awry when shots rang out. Some Americans found comfort in providentialism, believing God controlled all events, and their lives were in God’s hands. Yet people wondered why God would allow such a bloody war to continue. The Civil War challenged Americans’ belief in providence. Maybe that was why Americans spoke so much about providence in the war—to reassure themselves that there was some order in the disorder. These concerns drove Americans to the Bible, because the Bible was the best guide to God’s providence. The late summer months of 1862 would see a turning point in the war, and the events during this time compelled some of the war’s deepest and most self-serving views of providence in scripture.

scholarly journals Humanism and the Bible: The Contribution of Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
STÉPHANE SIMONNIN
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Jacques Lefevre D'etaples

Abstract: The French humanist Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (ca. 1460–1536) enjoyed in his lifetime a notoriety second only to Erasmus himself. His numerous works of biblical scholarship, his commentaries and homilies, and his translation of the Bible into French make him one of the most significant forerunners of the Reformation in Europe. His scholarly achievements as well as his profound piety deserve to be better known. While an in-depth study of Lefèvre’s scholarly achievements and theology is obviously not possible here, I propose to highlight his main contribution to biblical scholarship and hermeneutics.

scholarly journals La Biblia, los Padres y la exégesis de los ridículo

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
José M. DÍAZ DE BUSTAMANTE
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
The Bible

The expression "any that pisseth against the wall" is the turning-point of a research upon the exegetical system of the Fathers and later Church writers who must face unknown idioms and apparently ridiculous sentences in the Bible.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the dynamics of a pluralistic society in Acts 15:1-35 and contemporary Zimbabwean society: A Narratological Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Marevesa
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
Unity In Diversity

From time immemorial, ethnic diversity in society often resulted in conflict instead of cooperation. Religion played a pivotal role in uniting or dividing people. In the New Testament world, James Dunn (2006) describes the dynamics of a pluralistic society as that of unity in diversity. Furthermore, other prominent scholars in the New Testament studies such as Haenchen (1985:467) and Witherington (1998:439) aptly describe Acts 15:1-35 as a “turning point” and a “watershed”, respectively, in relation to the dynamics of ethnic conflict resolution. The main thrust of this paper to interrogate a conflict-resolution in the pluralistic environment of Acts 15. This paper will be informed by insights and the lens of narrative method. The coming of this method into the New Testament studies was not well received by traditional scholars who viewed it as taking the Bible as fictional as work. Nevertheless, this paper maintains that the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 (50 CE) can be examined and analysed using narratological insights.

The Humanist Idea of Christian Antiquity: Lefèvre d'Étaples and his Circle

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 126-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene F. Rice
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Medieval Mystics ◽  
Jacques Lefevre D'etaples

The major intellectual interests of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and his circle focused in the high ambition of ‘joining wisdom and piety with eloquence’. To this end the group worked to restore a ‘cleansed and purified Peripatetic philosophy’. They studied the Bible in a series of New Testament editions, commentaries, and translations. They printed the medieval mystics: the Victorines, Elizabeth of Schönau, Raymond Lull, Ruysbroeck. Finally, they devoted time, energy, and enthusiasm to the investigation of Christian antiquity and the editing of patristic texts. Lefèvre himself showed them how these separate enterprises meshed in a consistent program: ‘For knowledge of natural philosophy’, he wrote in 1506, ‘for knowledge of ethics, politics and economics, drink from the fountain of a purified Aristotle.

Bound by the Bible

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Kessler
Keyword(s):  
The Bible
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