Peter Martyr Vermigli's "Preces sacrae" (1564) and the problem of prayers as historical sources
This article combines a study of Peter Martyr Vermigli’s "Sacred Prayers" with a methodological concern for the particular challenges involved in coming to grips with prayers as historical sources. It demonstrates that in the reception history of Vermigli’s prayers there has been a recurri...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Reformation & Renaissance review
Year: 2017, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 87-103 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church |
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| Summary: | This article combines a study of Peter Martyr Vermigli’s "Sacred Prayers" with a methodological concern for the particular challenges involved in coming to grips with prayers as historical sources. It demonstrates that in the reception history of Vermigli’s prayers there has been a recurring tendency to read them as something other than prayers, a commentary on the Psalms for instance. By contrast, this article attends to the specificity of their genre and form as prayers. This approach leads, first, to a fresh appreciation of the "Preces sacrae" as a rare and revealing source of their kind, since not many prayers offered before lectures in sixteenth-century Protestant universities have survived; secondly, to the discovery of important, as yet unknown connections between Vermigli’s "Preces sacrae" and Wolfgang Capito’s "Precationes"; and thirdly to an understanding of the spiritual depth of the "Preces sacrae" going beyond their propositional theological content. |
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| ISSN: | 1462-2459 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reformation & Renaissance review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1311123 |