Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas, debates, and decisions about key political and religious problems in Renaissance Spain.
This book studies Catholic thought during the Spanish Renaissance, with the various contributors specifically exploring the ecclesiology and heresiology of the period. Today, these two subjects are considered to be strictly branches of theology, but at the time, they were also dealt with in the field of canon law. Both ecclesiology, which studied the internal structure of the Church, and heresiology, which identified theological errors, played an important role in shaping ideas, debates, and decisions concerning the major political and religious problems of the late medieval and early modern periods. In contrast to the conventional monolithic view of Spanish Catholic thought on ecclesiastical matters, the chapters in this book demonstrate that there was a wide spectrum of ideas in the field of theology and canon law. The topics analyzed include Church and Crown relations, diplomatic controversies, doctrinal debates on slavery, ecclesiological disputes in dialogue with the Council of Trent, and theories for distinguishing heresies and repressing them.
This book will be essential reading for those interested in disciplines such as Church history, political history, and the history of political and legal thought.
Author(s): Xavier Tubau
Series: Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s conciliarism in his lost De potestate papae et concilii1
A survey of his life and influences
Sepúlveda’s conciliarism in his correspondence
Other indications of conciliarism in his Epistolarum libri VII
A reference in Sepúlveda’s historical work
What is the source of Sepúlveda’s conciliarism?
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Theorizing in Trent: Alfonso de Castro, anti-heretical theory, and the politics of reform
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Conflicting loyalties: Church freedom, pastoral care, and civil duties in Diego de Álava y Esquivel
A free council of the universal church
Church reform in Trent
Politics and religion
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Conciliarism and episcopalism at the Council of Trent: The position of the Spanish bishops
Introduction
The long shadow of conciliarism at Trent
The debate over the residency of bishops
Confirmation of the council
The place of the Christian prince in sixteenth-century ecclesiology
Philip II’s questions for the Spanish bishops (1564)
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Heresy and the language of Catholicism in sixteenth-century Spain (1558–1560)1
Why the Carranza case?
In rigore ut iacent. Why the censuras of the Catecismo?
Lutheran language
Language that remembers
Language and good theology
Reading with simplicity
The wickedness of the times
The reader’s moral responsibility
Juan de la Peña and Lutheran language
Final remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Antonio de Córdoba on the relationship between council and pope
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Christian freedom and natural freedom1: An introduction to an archaeology of Catholic controversies over slavery
Christian freedom and natural freedom
Bringing the gospel all over the earth
Moral theology and law regarding the slaving of Africans
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Ecclesiastical Romanism and Spanish Universalism: Post-Tridentine ecclesiology in light of the intra-ecclesiastical doctrinal controversies
1594: Rome employs the right of callback to reserve judgment of Luis de Molina’s Concordia to itself
1612: The Spanish Monarchy seeks to reopen the de Auxiliis controversy
1644: The decree of the Roman Inquisition on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Notes
Bibliography
Index
