A Complex Legacy: Louis Bouyer and the Metaphysics of the Reformation

Based on a discussion of Louis Bouyer's thesis about the metaphysics of the Reformation in The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, this essay considers the methodological and hermeneutical issues involved in enquiring into the metaphysical commitments of Reformation theology. A case study of the...

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Main Author: Aspray, Silvianne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Modern theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Vermigli, Pietro Martire 1499-1562 / Bouyer, Louis 1913-2004 / Reformation / Protestantism / Metaphysics / Ontology
IxTheo Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDD Protestant Church
VA Philosophy
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Summary:Based on a discussion of Louis Bouyer's thesis about the metaphysics of the Reformation in The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, this essay considers the methodological and hermeneutical issues involved in enquiring into the metaphysical commitments of Reformation theology. A case study of the theology of the Reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli is employed for the argument that Reformation metaphysics was a hybrid of elements pertaining both to a nominalist and a participatory ontology. This argument is then taken further by a reflection on the history of reception of the metaphysical complexity which is at the heart of the Reformation legacy.
ISSN:1468-0025
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12367