Though it is not an area I know a great deal about there also seems to have been already an important shift in the scholastics especially Thomas Aquinas towards the primacy of the literal sense over the other senses.
This is very interesting! I had never heard of the Bern Synod or Wolfgang Capito. I wonder if any other Synods prohibited pastors from critiquing the Magistrates? I'm going to have look this up. And that is a lovely paragraph from Capito on the life of Christ and what it means for our own journeys. Thanks for all this!
Thanks so much! Capito was one of the principal reformers in Strassburg (along with the better-known Bucer). And I should say that it isn't a total prohibition of preaching against the magistrates; indeed the document says that in some circumstances ministers must -- but warns sternly against inappropriate critiques. A similar document was put out around the same time in Zurich, the Meilen Articles. In both cases, the magistrates essentially blamed hot-headed preachers for getting the Protestant cantons into a ruinous war with the Catholic cantons and wanted to ensure it didn't happen again.
They might not have been wrong about that. Preachers should promote peace wherever possible. And as Church and State were not yet disentangled, perhaps the State did have a right to tell them to cool their jets. Thanks again - this will keep me from doing my (more mundane) work, haha.
Though it is not an area I know a great deal about there also seems to have been already an important shift in the scholastics especially Thomas Aquinas towards the primacy of the literal sense over the other senses.
Indeed - I'm very much not a medievalist but my understand is that there is a shift towards the primacy of the literal sense in the late middle ages.
This is very interesting! I had never heard of the Bern Synod or Wolfgang Capito. I wonder if any other Synods prohibited pastors from critiquing the Magistrates? I'm going to have look this up. And that is a lovely paragraph from Capito on the life of Christ and what it means for our own journeys. Thanks for all this!
Thanks so much! Capito was one of the principal reformers in Strassburg (along with the better-known Bucer). And I should say that it isn't a total prohibition of preaching against the magistrates; indeed the document says that in some circumstances ministers must -- but warns sternly against inappropriate critiques. A similar document was put out around the same time in Zurich, the Meilen Articles. In both cases, the magistrates essentially blamed hot-headed preachers for getting the Protestant cantons into a ruinous war with the Catholic cantons and wanted to ensure it didn't happen again.
They might not have been wrong about that. Preachers should promote peace wherever possible. And as Church and State were not yet disentangled, perhaps the State did have a right to tell them to cool their jets. Thanks again - this will keep me from doing my (more mundane) work, haha.
Great Article Ben