Jean Gerson and de Consolatione Theologiae (1418)

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The Consolation of a Biblical and Reforming Theology for a Disordered Age

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Cover
Titel
Preface
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
I. Introduction
II. De Consolatione Theologiae: An Introduction to the Text as Literature
III. Pedagogy and Theological Method: A Paideutic Approach to Theology
A. What is consolation?
1. Desperatio as the context for consolatio
2. The character of theology as paideia
3. Consolatio as the texture of scriptura sacra
4. Theology and teleology: peregrinatio ad Deum
5. Stabilitas: mystical variations on a Boethian theme
B. Theology and literary method: »Re-Forming« scholastic theology
1. The use and user of the Bible: correlation of text and reader
2. Scriptura cum experienta
3. Theologia velut humano more loquens: toward a metaphorical theology
4. Modus loquendi: from scholastic disputatio to dialogus
IV. Foundations of the Theological Task
A. The construction of a theologia biblica
1. Theologiae traditio per scripturam revelatam: the horizon of theology
2. Per eruditionem sacrae scripturae: the teaching function of scripture
3. On the »sufficiency« of scripture
4. Biblical hermeneutics and ecclesiology
B. From philosophy to theology: Methodological premises and pastoral implications
1. Philosophy, theology, and the divine law
2. Philosophical prolegomenon to an epistemology of revelation
3. Adfinem aetemae beatitudinis: theology as a pastoral tool
C. On the integration of theoria and praxis
1. The theologian and the "erudition of the heart
2. A call to the cloistered life?
3. Mysticism and the »democratization« oftheology
V. Via Media et Regia: Toward a Mediating Soteriology
A. Beginning with the Fall: An Augustinian anthropology
1. Adam as praevaricator and the mortis damnatio
2. Ab horto voluptatis: the limits ofhuman nature
B. Divine election ab aeterno as the foundation of soteriology
1. Praedestinatio ante praevisa merita: a shift to the »right«
2. Behind Scotus: a theological variant of Boethius' view of providence
3. Via media as a synthesis of »confessional and »pastoral« concems
C. Pastoral theology in a new key: The viator's role as seeker
1. lncorporation in Christ perfidem
2. Per desperationem ad spem: a linear dialectic toward hope
3. Humility and hope: Deus salvat damnantes se
4. In Deum se projicit: a mystical doctrine of justification
D. Beyond resignation: The construction of a voluntarist soteriology
1. The Christological basis for voluntarism
2. Conformitas voluntatis: the intersection of divine and human freedom
3. De providentia as the »co-operation ofGod and viatores
VI. The Church in Via: Ecclesiology as the Shaping Matrix of Theological Theory and Practice
A. From the garden to the church: Ecclesiology as social hierarchy
1. Lex divinitatis et ordo: a Dionysian vision ofthe church
2. Correctio judicaria: the priority of communitas over libertas
3. Sensus a sanctis patribus traditus: exegesis within the church as historical community
B. The church in the interim: An ecclesiology of humility
1. De moderamine zeli: the patience of reform
2. Toleration and the humility ofrestraint
3. Opus hoc solius Dei esse: the solitary life and reform
4. Social control or social order? Authority, obedience, and conversio
VII. Conclusion: A Reorientation of Gerson Studies
Bibliography
Index of Biblical References
Index of Persons and Places
Index of Subjects

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