Conscience: Dictator or Guide? a Study in seventeenth-century English Protestant Moral Theology. By Keven T. Kelly. (Studies in Theology and Church History). Pp. 202. London: Chapman, 1967. 35s.

1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-263
Author(s):  
James K. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Church History

Different Shades of Seventeenth-Century Probabilism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Coherent System

This chapter provides a thematic analysis of some of the most significant applications of probabilism to a number of epistemological, intellectual, political, and theological questions. It focuses on four early seventeenth-century authors, each using probabilism to advance a specific intellectual agenda: Tomás Sánchez and his effort to articulate probability as a trait d’union between conscience and law in the context of his elaboration on the doctrine on marriage; Leonardus Lessius and his attempt to use probabilism to update Catholic doctrine and especially Catholic economic thought; Juan Azor and his endeavor to structure probabilism within a stable and coherent system of knowledge; and Emmanuel Sa and his vulgarization of probabilism for the sake of confessors and other readers who did not necessarily have a deep background in, and extensive knowledge of, moral theology.

Informal Survey of Courses on Women in Religion

Horizons ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-232
Author(s):  
Arlene Anderson Swidler
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Church History ◽  
Women Studies ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
Literature Education ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Church Law ◽  
Science Departments

In the early 1970's courses in Women's Studies began to appear on many campuses across the country, encouraged in part by the success of Black Studies. As the whole area of women and religion is a particularly complex and significant field, courses on women began to appear in religion as well as in psychology, literature, history, sociology and even natural science departments.It was hard to know where to begin in organizing a course on “Women in Religion.” Most teachers felt some attention must be given to both Old and New Testament studies, church history, church law, non-Western religions, moral theology, and the role women play in contemporary churches; then secular history, literature, education and psychology must all be tapped to show parallels, causes and effects. People teaching in Women Studies programs tended to do a lot of sharing of experiences and resources.

From Neophyte to Non-White: Moral Theology and Race Mixture in Colonial Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Hill
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Colonial Brazil

AbstractThe first global debate about racial admixture originated in the exegesis of papal privileges designed to aid Catholic converts in Spanish and Portuguese Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Later Scholastics contributed to the ontology of race by aligning religious status with origins, or blood, in ways that departed from raging controversies around Jewish and Muslim converts to Catholicism. Through recourse to seventeenth-century probabilism, these moral theologians and canonists debated the meaning of the term

scholarly journals Bøger om jødisk historie i Danmark de sidste 15 år

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Morten Thing
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Church History ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Precision ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

I Danmark er der de sidste femten år udkommet en hel del bøger om jødernes historie, ikke mindst om deres trængsler. Morten Thing gennemgår i denne oversigtsartikel de vigtigste indenfor forskning og formidling. * * *Books on Jewish history in Denmark the last 15 years • The most spectacular work about Jewish culture is without doubt Martin Schwarz Lausten’s six-volume work about the attitude of the Danish Lutheran church towards the Jews and Judaism. It is a work of great precision and with the use of many new sources. Although it is a work on church-history it has a lot to say on Jewish reactions to the church and the state. The volumes are: Kirke og synagoge,De fromme og jøderne, Oplysning i kirke og synagoge, Frie jøder?, Folkekirken og jøderne og Jødesympati og jødehad i folkekirken. Antisemitism has also been in focus and Sofie Lene Baks work on the history of antisemitism in Denmark is probably the most central: Dansk antisemitisme 1930–45. The rescue of the Danish Jews in WWII is without doubt the most researched topic in Danish Jewish history. Many new works have been published. Sofie Lene Baks book on what happened to the Jews when they came back from Sweden I 1945, Da krigen var forbi. It turned out that the municipality of Copenhagen had taken care of many flats and possessions. The history of the Jewish minority has been more in focus than ever. Many new books have been published. Arthur Arnheim’s Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse is the biggest book on the history from seventeenth century until today.  

Jansenism and England

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Religious Controversy ◽  
Moral Potency ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Working Out ◽  
The Church ◽  
Reliable Basis

This book examines the impact in mid- to later seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism. The associated debates involved fundamental questions about the doctrine of grace and moral theology, about the life of the Church and the conduct of individual Christians. The book offers an analysis of the main themes of the controversy and an account of instances of English interest, arguing that English Protestant theologians who were in the process of working out their own views on basic theological questions recognized the relevance of the continental debates. The arguments evolved by the French writers also constitute a point of comparison for the developing views of English theologians. Where the Jansenists reasserted an Augustinian emphasis on the gratuity of salvation against Catholic theologians who overvalued the powers of human nature, the English writers examined here, arguing against Protestant theologians who denied nature any moral potency, emphasized man’s contribution to his own salvation. Both arguments have been seen to contain a corrosive individualism, the former through its preoccupation with the luminous experience of grace, the latter through its tendency to elide grace and moral virtue. These assessments are challenged here. Nevertheless, these theologians did encourage greater individualism. Focusing on the affective experience of conversion, they developed forms of moral rigorism which represented, in both cases, an attempt to provide a reliable basis for Christian faith and practice in the fragmented intellectual context of post-Reformation Europe.

Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667) and the “Historia Orientalis”

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Loop
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The Impact

AbstractGenerally neglected by scholars of the history of oriental studies, Johann Heinrich Hottinger's Historia Orientalis (1651, 2nd ed. 1660) is one of the most significant contributions to the history of Islam to have been published in the seventeenth century. This article analyses Hottinger's interest in Islam and in Arabic sources across the range of his writings and his correspondence, with a special focus on the Historia Orientalis. It discusses the philological and antiquarian standards by which he assessed Arab history and it describes the numerous Islamic manuscripts he exploited. It also examines the manifold ways in which Hottinger used the Koran and other Islamic sources to corroborate his apologetic Protestant interpretation of Church history. It thus sheds a light on the impact that a combination of confessional commitment, antiquarianism, and philology had on the rise of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Europe.

scholarly journals O papel da teologia moral na formação da consciência dos juízes na América do século XVII * The formative role of moral theology in the judges’ conscience in seventeenth-century America

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Mariângela Célia Ramos Violante
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Moral Theology

Este artigo busca analisar, a partir das obras Tratado de la Justicia y el Derecho de Domingo de Soto, Arte legal para el estudio de la Iurisprudencia de Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza e Perfecto confessor y cura de almas de Juan Machado de Chaves, publicadas entre os séculos XVI e XVII, os elementos da doutrina católica que compunham um saber formador da consciência dos juízes, propondo, com base na reflexão proveniente do conceito koselleckiano de Bildung, que a relação entre a teologia moral e o direito era fundamental para a administração da justiça na América hispânica.

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