Between Creativity and Norm-Making
Tensions in the Early Modern Era
Biographical note
Sigrid Müller, Dr. (1999) in Theology, University of Tübingen, is Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She has done extensive research in the fields of Late Medieval nominalism and history of ethics, including Handeln in einer kontingenten Welt: Zu Begriff und Bedeutung der recta ratio bei Wilhelm von Ockham (Tübingen/Basel, 2000).
Mag. Cornelia Schweiger is research assistant in Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She has worked on the History of Moral Theology (especially on the question of Natural Law) and on the relationship between faith and ethics with a special focus on John Rawls.
Contributors include: Heribert Smolinsky, Volker Leppin, Renate Dürr, Thomas Simon, Rudolf Schüßler, Marianne Schlosser, Hans Schelkshorn, Christian Thomas Leitmeir, Thomas Brogl, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Henrik Wels, Hermann Hold, Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger.
Mag. Cornelia Schweiger is research assistant in Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She has worked on the History of Moral Theology (especially on the question of Natural Law) and on the relationship between faith and ethics with a special focus on John Rawls.
Contributors include: Heribert Smolinsky, Volker Leppin, Renate Dürr, Thomas Simon, Rudolf Schüßler, Marianne Schlosser, Hans Schelkshorn, Christian Thomas Leitmeir, Thomas Brogl, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Henrik Wels, Hermann Hold, Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger.
Readership
All those interested in the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, Reformation, Late Medieval theology and philosophy, Political and Church history.
Table of contents
Introduction: Between Creativity and Norm-Making
Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger
From Virtue Ethics to Normative Ethics?
Tracing Paradigm Shifts in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
Sigrid Müller
Sine Auctoritate Nulla Disciplina Est Perfecta:
Medieval Music Theory in Search of Normative Foundations
Christian Thomas Leitmeir
“Ÿeglichs Nãch Sín Vermugen”
Johannes Nider’s Idea of Conscience
Thomas Brogl
Amt, Lehramt, Charisma
Die Bedeutung von Prudentia, Discretio und Norm zur Zeit der Ersten Melker Reform
Meta Niederkorn-Bruck
“…Den Seelen Helfen”
Neues Und Traditionelles in der Spiritualität des Ignatius von Loyola und der Ersten Jesuiten
Marianne Schlosser
Business Morality at the Dawn of Modernity:
The Cases of Angelo Corbinelli and Cosimo De’ Medici
Rudolf Schüssler
Anthropology Before and After the Discovery of America:
Continuity and Change in the Question of the Sameness of Souls
Henrik Wels
The Change of Geographical Worldviews and Francisco De Vitoria’s Foundation of a Modern Cosmopolitanism
Hans Schelkshorn
The Better Human Being:
The Dispute on Morality in Humanism and the Reformation
Heribert Smolinsky
Justification Theology and Human Action:
On the Foundation of Ethics in Early Lutheranism
Volker Leppin
Confession as an Instrument of Church Discipline:
A Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries
Renate Dürr
“Policing” And Morality:
On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period
Thomas Simon
Beholding Saint Christopher:
A Contrast to the Belief in Death
Hermann Hold
Bibliography
Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger
From Virtue Ethics to Normative Ethics?
Tracing Paradigm Shifts in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
Sigrid Müller
Sine Auctoritate Nulla Disciplina Est Perfecta:
Medieval Music Theory in Search of Normative Foundations
Christian Thomas Leitmeir
“Ÿeglichs Nãch Sín Vermugen”
Johannes Nider’s Idea of Conscience
Thomas Brogl
Amt, Lehramt, Charisma
Die Bedeutung von Prudentia, Discretio und Norm zur Zeit der Ersten Melker Reform
Meta Niederkorn-Bruck
“…Den Seelen Helfen”
Neues Und Traditionelles in der Spiritualität des Ignatius von Loyola und der Ersten Jesuiten
Marianne Schlosser
Business Morality at the Dawn of Modernity:
The Cases of Angelo Corbinelli and Cosimo De’ Medici
Rudolf Schüssler
Anthropology Before and After the Discovery of America:
Continuity and Change in the Question of the Sameness of Souls
Henrik Wels
The Change of Geographical Worldviews and Francisco De Vitoria’s Foundation of a Modern Cosmopolitanism
Hans Schelkshorn
The Better Human Being:
The Dispute on Morality in Humanism and the Reformation
Heribert Smolinsky
Justification Theology and Human Action:
On the Foundation of Ethics in Early Lutheranism
Volker Leppin
Confession as an Instrument of Church Discipline:
A Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries
Renate Dürr
“Policing” And Morality:
On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period
Thomas Simon
Beholding Saint Christopher:
A Contrast to the Belief in Death
Hermann Hold
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