Edelheit, Amos, Ph. D.

Ficino, Pico and Savonarola the evolution of humanist theology 1461/2-1498 / [electronic resource] : by Amos Edelheit. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - x, 503 p. - The medieval Mediterranean, v. 78 0928-5520 ; . - Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 78. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-483) and index.

Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence -- Introduction: Giovanni Caroli and his times -- Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one -- Liber dierum lucensium, book two -- Liber dierum lucensium, book three -- Humanist theology in practice -- The historical context -- Declamationum liber -- The Turkish danger and its religious connotations -- Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors -- The attitude to rhetoric -- Ficino's praedicationes -- Poliziano's sermons -- Rinuccini's sermons -- Nesi's sermons -- Other sermons -- Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi sortem sustinebimus? -- Some general introductory remarks -- De christiana religione : the "manifesto" of the new humanist theology -- Prisca religio and its divine inspiration : religion as the characteristic of man -- Praeparatio evangelica -- The incarnation as an intervention of the eternal in the temporal -- The teachings of Christ -- The apostles and the propagation of Christianity -- The decline of the Christian world and Ficino's proposals for renewal -- Giovanni Pico della mirandola and his theological method : between Opinio and fides -- The theological crisis -- Quia errare in opinione thomae, non est errare in fide-the dispute in Rome 1486 and the Apiologia -- Pico's attitude to philosophy : between academic skepticism and religious certainty -- The Savonarola affair-the government of God as republican practice -- The Savonarola a'air : a case-study in the history and in the historiography of the Renaissance -- Savonarola : an anti-humanist or a pro-humanist? -- Savonarola and politics -- The notion of reform : the transition from theology to politics -- Spiritual and political vision : the preaching prophet and his slogan.


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Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. De Christiana religione.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. Apologia.
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.


Christianity and religious humanism.
Humanism--History.--Italy--Florence
Philosophical anthropology.
Theological anthropology.


Electronic books.

BR128.H8 / E34 2008

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