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Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Bri

  • Hardback
  • 190 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.1 x 23.9 x 1.6 cm

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In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briconnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated. Erasmus, Briconnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.

  • Title

    Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Bri

  • Author

    Jacob Vance

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    September 2014

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    190

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004281240

  • ISBN-10

    900428124X

  • Eden Code

    4725222

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