The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought Book

I. Fourteenth-Century Religious Thought: A Premature Profile

1. Introduction
2. The Myth of the Thomist Phalanx
3. The Franciscan Hegemony
4. The Augustinian Renaissance
5. The Coming of the Third Age
6. High Mysticism and the Beginnings of the Devotio Moderna
7. Epilogue

II. The Shape of Late Medieval Thought

1. Three Assumptions
2. The Many Faces of Crisis
3. The Search for New Security
4. Pax and the Third Age
5. 'Summa Misericordia Super Summam Miseriam Directe Cadit'

III. Headwaters of the Reformation: Initia Lutheri—Initia Reformationis

1. Distinctio Realis—Distinctio Rationis
2. Contra Modernos
3. Via Gregorii
4. Epilogue

IV. Facientibus Quod in se est Deus non Denegat Gratiam: Robert Holcot O.P. and the Beginnings of Luther's Theology

1. Sola Fide Tenetur: Holcot's Scepticism
2. Sola Gratia Salvatur: Holcot's Predestinarianism
3. Theologia est Celum Homo autem Terra: Luther's Earliest Postion (1509-1510)

V. 'Iustitia Christi' and 'Iustitia Dei:' Luther and the Scholastic Doctrines of Justification

1. Luther the Born Heretic
2. Medieval Pelagianism
3. Against a Common Front
4. The Last Judgment: Now!

VI. Simul Gemitus et Raptus: Luther and Mysticism

1. Introduction
2. Methodological Considerations
3. Toward a New Classification: 'Sic et Non'
4. Christ's Embrace: Death and Hell
5. The Mystical Context: Fundamental Concepts

1. The German Peasants' War
2. The New Horizon of Expectation
3. Three Contemporary Testimonies as Judgements of the Peasants' War
4. 'Iustitia Praetextu': Justice as Pretext or Motive
5. Appendix: Peasant Plot and Program.
   A Contemporary Report on the Events of 1502

VIII. Reformation and Revolution: Copernicus' Discovery in an Era of Change

1. The Encounter Between Cosmology and Theology
2. Osiander's Unauthorized Preface
3. The Nominalist Background to the Copernican Revolution
4. The Copernican Manifesto
5. Appendix: From Copernicus' Dedication to Pope Paul III

IX. Duns Scotus, Nominalism, and the Council of Trent

1. Johannis Duns Scoti: temerariae opiniones
2. Partim-Partim
3. Meritum de Congruo
4. The Present State of Scholarship
5. Andreas de Vega, O.F.M., and the Pre-Conciliar Period
6. Some Notes on the Preconciliar History of Promereri
7. Promereri at the Council of Trent
8. Soto, O.P. and Vega, O.F.M.: Early Interpreters of the Decree

X. The 'Extra' Dimension in the Theology of Calvin

1. Etiam extra Ecclesiam
2. Etiam extra Coenam
3. Etiam extra Carnem
4. Etiam extra Legem

XI. Calvin's Critique of Calvinism

1. Schools of Calvin Interpretation
2. Embattled Fronts

XII. Quo Vadis, Petre? Tradition from Irenaeus to Humani Generis

1. The Early Church
2. The Period of Transition
3. Middle Ages—Reformation—Counter Reformation
4. Towards Contemporary Theology
5. Quo Vadis, Petre?

Biographical Information
Index of Names and Places