Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

Informationen zum Autor Constance M. Furey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. The research for this book was aided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Klappentext How religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship! gender! reading and writing. Zusammenfassung By analysing the lives! work! and correspondence of Erasmus! Thomas More! Margaret More Roper! Reginald Pole! Gasparo Contarini! and Vittoria Colonna! this 2005 book demonstrates how these Catholic men and women of letters created a distinctive kind of religious community rooted in friendship and spiritualised scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A new kind of religious life; 2. Creating an alternative community: spiritual values and the search for meaning; 3. The spiritual quest: reading and writing about God and salvation; 4. Necessary relationships: desire for God and each other; 5. Defining the ideal: words of praise for fools and bishops, women and martyrs; 6. Epilogue.

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• Authors: Constance M. Furey, Constance M. (Indiana University Furey, Furey Constance M., Constance M. Furey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103435
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10343-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology