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Nicolas De Clamanges - Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations (Hardcover)
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Nicolas De Clamanges - Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations (Hardcover)
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Studied almost exclusively as a literary humanist, Nicolas de
Clamanges (ca. 1363/1364-1437) was closely involved in the Great
Western Schism, French humanism, politics at the University of
Paris, and Church reform. Far more than an elegant writer, this
Parisian scholar and sometime papal secretary was an important but
until now unjustly neglected religious reformer. In Part One of
this volume, Christopher M. Bellitto presents a biography of
Clamanges' life and a survey of his writings within the multiple
contexts in which he operated: schism, Hundred Years' War, Parisian
humanism, French civil war. It places his literary images of a
troubled Church within the framework of his ideas of the humanism
of reform, identifying his great debt to Pauline and Augustinian
ideas of the interplay of divine and human activities. Part Two
explores Clamanges' normative emphasis on personal reform, which
was essentially a via purgativa that drew on monastic piety and
late medieval spirituality, especially the imitation of Christ in
the Modern Devotion. His was an inside-out reform that radiated
from the heart of the individual Christian through the rest of the
Church. In Clamanges' writings, we hear the calls for the personal
reform of the cleric-in-training ultimately directed toward
improvements in the cura animarum and the demand for the renewal of
episcopal leadership that were hallmarks of Trent's systematic
reform program. This examination of his thought reveals Clamanges
to have been in continuity with ancient and medieval Catholic
reform ideas that foreshadowed not Luther, but Trent. His
spirituality of personal reform may be seen as one bridge over
which the Fathers' model of personal reform was passed along from
the early Church to the twelfth-century renaissance, and then
through the late Middle Ages to early modern Catholicism and the
Council of Trent.
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