المؤلفون: Simon Burton

المصدر: Burton, S J G 2019, ' New presbyter meets old priests : Conciliarism and conscience in Samuel Rutherford’s Free Disputation ', Global Intellectual History . https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2019.1699881

مصطلحات موضوعية: Rutherford, Locke, Cultural Studies, History, Conciliarism, media_common.quotation_subject, Philosophy, conscience, covenant, Toleration, Library and Information Sciences, Covenant, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), toleration, Theology, Conscience, media_common

الوصف: In 1649 Samuel Rutherford, the leading theorist of the Covenanter revolution, published his Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience. The situation of this celebrated anti-tolerationist argument, which famously roused the ire of Milton, in the political and ecclesiological strife of mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland is well known, and has been frequently discussed in scholarship. The focus of this paper is rather on Rutherford’s connection to a broader intellectual tradition, namely the vibrant Conciliarist movement of the late medieval and early modern period. It argues that Rutherford drew on Conciliarist thought in order to articulate an account of individual rights and consent within an over-arching framework of unity and uniformity. In doing so he was able to develop a nuanced understanding of conscience and the right of resistance, while always maintaining its subordination to the law of God. The paper also compares Rutherford’s covenantal vision of politics with Locke’s contractual understanding as a way of beginning to recontextualise early modern debates concerning tolerance, its character and its scope.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2019.1699881

المؤلفون: Simon J. G. Burton

المصدر: Burton, S J G 2017, ' Jan Amos Comenius’s Trinitarian and conciliar vision of a united Europe : Christ as the universal ‘centre of security’ ', Reformation and Renaissance Review, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 104-121 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2017.1311124

مصطلحات موضوعية: universal language, Trinity, Nicholas of Cusa, Law, Religious studies, language, Jan Amos Comenius, Universal language, Sociology, Theology, conciliarism, language.human_language, Connection (mathematics)

الوصف: This article explores Jan Amos Comenius’s vision of a Christian united Europe and its connection to his theological programme of reform. This is manifest first of all in his linguistic projects, in which he sought to break down the language barriers separating Christians both from each other and from the mission field of the New World, but it came to fruition especially in his comprehensive reform project of pansophia, especially as this was represented in his massive Consultatio catholica. For it is here that Comenius expands on his dream of a union of nations under one Christian religion. In this, Christ who transcends time and space, uniting in himself all the diverse aspirations of the nations, is revealed as the global ‘centre of security.’ Importantly, Comenius’s expression of this is profoundly indebted to Nicholas of Cusa and the article concludes by highlighting Comenius’s own Trinitarian and conciliar vision of Christian Europe.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2017.1311124