XV Secolo (1400-1500) Flashcards
15th century is…
“between Medieval and Modern”
4 main theological points
a) Revival of Thomistic studies
b) The continuation of the supremacy of Nominalism
c) The study of Economic and Social Morals
d) Ecclesiology
GIOVANNI CAPREOLO (1380-1444)
i. Presentation of the thesis of St. Thomas
ii. Presentation of Opposing Views (Scotists, Ockhamists)
iii. Solutions (in favor of Thomas)
DIONIGI DI LEEUWEN (1402-1471):
Flemish Carthusian
b) Summa fidei orthodoxae: synthesis of Summa
PIETRO CROCKAERT (t1514):
a) Flemish Dominican
b) Taught at U. of Paris, where he was the teacher of Francisco di Vitoria (who would later become founder of School of Salamanca)
who is this nominalist? ……..salvation depends solely on God’s grace without any contribution of the human will; is therefore very important for its influence on the thought of Luther, also a German Augustinian, not much later.
GABRIEL BIEL (T1495):
Moral theologian in connection with economics in Florence (banking capital of the world at that time)
SANT’ANTONINO DI FIRENZE (1389 – 1459)
The big debate in eccelsiology was between….?
conciliarists and the anticonciliarists
Most important eccelsiologist of the century (anti-conciliarist)
JUAN DE TORQUEMADA (1388 – 1468)
Aim was to base every branch of learning on the culture of classical Greek and Roman antiquity.
Humanism
Applied the theory of 4 Causes to the Chruch
i. Efficient: Christ and the Sacraments
ii. Material: The Faithful
iii. Final: Glory
iv. Formal: Unity with Christ through Faith
JUAN DE TORQUEMADA (1388 – 1468)
TEODORICO DI NIEM (t1495)
conciliarista: il concilio può deporre il papa
NICCOLÒ CUSANO: (Nikolaus Krebs) 1405-1464
moved away from his original conciliarist ideas, became a key german figure in favor of the Holy See.
