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Shadows of Doubt - Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (Hardcover)
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Shadows of Doubt - Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (Hardcover)
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Stefania Tutino shows that the hermeneutical and epistemological
anxieties that characterize our current intellectual climate are
rooted in the early modern world. Showing that post-Reformation
Catholicism did not simply usher in modernity, but indeed
postmodernity as well, her study complicates the well-established
scholarly view concerning the context of the Protestant Reformation
and the Catholic response to it. Shadows of Doubt provides a
collection of case-studies centered on the relationship between
language, the truth of men, and the Truth of theology. Most of
these case-studies illuminate little-known figures in the history
of early modern Catholicism. The militant aspects of
post-Tridentine Catholicism can be appreciated through study of
figures such as Robert Bellarmine or Cesare Baronio, the solid
pillars of the intellectual and theological structure of the Church
of Rome; however, an understanding of the more enigmatic aspects of
early modernity requires exploration of the demimonde of
post-Reformation Catholicism. Tutino examines the thinkers whom few
scholars mention and fewer read, demonstrating that
post-Reformation Catholicism was not simply a world of solid
certainties to be opposed to the Protestant falsehoods, but also a
world in which the stable Truth of theology existed alongside and
contributed to a number of far less stable truths concerning the
world of men. Post-Reformation Catholic culture was not only
concerned with articulating and affirming absolute truths, but also
with exploring and negotiating the complex links between certainty
and uncertainty. By bringing to light this fascinating and hitherto
largely unexamined side of post-Tridentine Catholicism, Tutino
reveals that post-Reformation Catholic culture was a vibrant
laboratory for many of the issues that we face today: it was a
world of fractures and fractured truths which we, with a heightened
sensitivity to discrepancies and discontinuities, are now
well-suited to understand.
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