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Darrera modificació: 2009-09-03
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Fogleman, Andrew, "Finding a Middle Way: Late Medieval Naturalism and Visionary Experience", Visual Resources, 25/1 (2009), 7-28.
- Resum
- During the later Middle Ages, European theologians increasingly drew on naturalistic explanations of the world to explain supernatural phenomena. Three theologians at the University of Paris, Nichole Oresme (1320 - 1382), Henry Langenstein (1325 - 1397), and Jean Gerson (1363 - 1429) wrote a series of treatises on religious visionaries warning that natural or medical causes were often behind the claims of Christian and non-Christian religious visionaries. This article traces how this naturalistic analysis of visionary claims became popularized in Christian visionary treatises and considers its effect upon Christian practice as a whole. In particular, I argue that medieval naturalism developed into an explicit challenge to older, ascetic-based ideals of holiness commonly associated with the lives of Christian visionaries.
- Matèries
- Religió - Teologia cristiana
Religió - Profetisme
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
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