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In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. This study calls attention to the centrality of the idolatry issue for the Reformation. It traces the development of Protestant iconoclastic theology and practice, provides a survey and synthesis of its unfolding from Erasmus through Calvin, and lays a foundation for understanding the Reformed ideology that stood in conflict with Catholicism and Lutheranism. Professor Eire's main thesis is that the argument against 'idolatry' was central to Reformed Protestantism, both in its theological aspect and in its political ramifications, and that it reached its fullest and most enduring expression in Calvinism.

Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- Idols and images --- Public worship --- Iconoclasm --- Reformation --- Worship --- History of doctrines --- 284.1 --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN --- -Public worship --- -Reformation --- -Iconoclasm --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Church attendance --- Iconography --- Images and idols --- Religious images --- Statuettes --- Animism --- Art, Primitive --- Art and religion --- Fetishism --- Magic --- Religion --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Symbolism --- Gods in art --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- -History of doctrines --- -History --- History --- Reformation. --- -Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- -2 CALVIN, JEAN Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- 284.1 Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- -284.1 Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- -Protestant Reformation --- Iconography, Religious --- Religious iconography --- Religious statuettes --- Statuettes, Religious --- Religious art --- Arts and Humanities --- Idols and images - Europe - Worship - History of doctrines - 16th century --- Public worship - History of doctrines - 16th century --- Iconoclasm - Europe --- HISTOIRE DES DOCTRINES --- ERASME, DIDIER (1469-1536) --- CALVIN (JEAN CAUVIN, DIT), REFORMATEUR RELIGIEUX ET ECRIVAIN FRANCAIS, 1509-1564 --- REFORMATEURS --- HUMANISTES --- 16E SIECLE --- PHILOSOPHIE

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Civilization, Western. --- Eternity --- History of doctrines. --- Civilization, Western --- Infinite --- Future life --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- History of doctrines

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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled origins, the book has had a profound impact on Christian spirituality for five centuries, attracting admiration from readers as diverse as mystics, philosophers, artists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists. How did a manuscript once kept under lock and key by the Spanish Inquisition become one of the most inspiring religious books of all time? National Book Award winner Carlos Eire tells the story of this incomparable spiritual masterpiece, examining its composition and reception in the sixteenth century, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. The Life became an iconic text of the Counter-Reformation, was revered in Franco's Spain, and has gone on to be read as a feminist manifesto, a literary work, and even as a secular text. But as Eire demonstrates in this vibrant and evocative book, Teresa's confession is a cry from the heart to God and an audacious portrayal of mystical theology as a search for love. Here is the essential companion to the Life, one woman's testimony to the reality of mystical experience and a timeless affirmation of the ultimate triumph of good over evil.

Teresa of Avila --- Christian saints --- Spiritual life --- 248 TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA --- 248 <092> --- 248 <092> Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--Biografieën --- 248 <092> Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Biografieën --- Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--Biografieën --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Biografieën --- 248 TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA --- 248 TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA --- Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--TERESA DE JESUS DE AVILA --- Saints --- Canonization --- Catholic Church --- Teresa, --- Ahumada, Teresa de Cepeda y, --- Cepeda, Theresa de, --- Cepeda y Ahumada, Teresa de, --- De Cepeda, Theresa, --- De Cepeda y Ahumada, Teresa, --- Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, Teresa, --- Teresa de Jesús, --- Teresa di Gesù, --- Teresia a Jesu, --- Tereza, --- Theresa de Jesus, --- Theresa, --- Thérèse, --- Thérèse de Jésus, --- Therese, --- Theresia a Jesu, --- Theresia, --- Theresia von Jesus, --- Christian saints - Spain - 16th century - Biography. --- Spiritual life - Catholic Church - Early works to 1800. --- Teresia a Iesu --- Teresa, - of Avila, Saint, - 1515-1582.

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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores-such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science-have resonance and lessons for our time. -- Dust jacket.

History of philosophy --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Levitation. --- Mysticism --- Supernatural. --- Lévitation. --- Mystique --- Surnaturel. --- Christianity. --- Christianisme.

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"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores-such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science-have resonance and lessons for our time"--Dust jacket.

Levitation. --- Mysticism --- Supernatural. --- Christianity.