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Faith, Ethics, and Church
David Aers
其他書名
Writing in England, 1360-1409
出版Boydell & Brewer, 2000
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / MedievalReligion / Christian Living / GeneralReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN08599156119780859915618
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b_a-9mQqMvYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Examination of key texts - Chaucer to Wyclif - sheds new light on medieval spirituality.

The relationship between versions of the late medieval Church, faith, ethics and the lay powers, as explored in a range of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century texts written in England, is the subject of this book. It argues that they disclose strikingly diverse models of Christian discipleship, and examines the sources and consequences of such differences. Issues investigated include whether the Church could shape modern communities and individualidentities, and how it could combine its status as a major landlord and trader without being assimilated by the various networks of earthly power and profit. The book begins with Chaucer's treatment of received versions of faith,ethics and the Church, and moves via St Thomas, Ockham, Nicholas Love, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Langland (who pursues the issues with particular intensity and focus) to Wyclif's construal of Christian discipleship in relation to his projected reform of the Church. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will be of interest to all those studying late medieval Christianity and literature.
DAVID AERS is James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Historical Theology at Duke University.