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- Title
PROFEZIA E LIBERTÀ Altri aspetti della controversia tra Calvino e gli eretici italiani sul caso Serveto.
- Authors
Felici, Lucia
- Abstract
This essay analyses the different conception of prophecy in John Calvin and in the Italian heretics Celio Secondo Curione, Sebastiano Castellione and Giovanni Leonardo Sartori. Such difference implied an opposed vision of religion, the church and tolerance. Non-conformists' emphasis on prophecy as a universal, free and direct means to communicate with God, undermined the authority of positive ecclesiastical institutions and provided foundations for an ecclesiology and eschatology alternative to those of the magisterial churches. Calvin opposed these trends with his drive to found the City of God on earth and with his institutionalised and self-referential idea of charisma. The clash between the reformer and the Italians took place after the execution of the Spanish anti-Trinitarian Miguel Servet in Geneva in 1553, and was followed by a long and heated controversy from which emerged some of the basic principles concerning the debate on religious freedom in modern Europe. On this occasion, the definition and nature of prophecy was an important point of dispute which to date has not been analysed.
- Subjects
CALVIN, Jean, 1509-1564; CHRISTIANITY; PROPHECY; CHRISTIAN heretics; CURIONE, Celio Secondo, 1503-1569; SARTORI, Giovanni Leonardo; CASTELLION, Sebastien, 1515-1563; SERVETUS, Michael, 1511?-1553; HISTORY
- Publication
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
1827-7365
- Publication type
Essay