RT Article
T1 A Complex Legacy: Louis Bouyer and the Metaphysics of the Reformation
JF Modern theology
VO 34
IS 1
SP 3
OP 22
A1 Aspray, Silvianne
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/167027750X
AB 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.
DO 10.1111/moth.12367