1st Edition

Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain

Edited By Xavier Tubau Copyright 2022
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas, debates, and decisions about key political and religious problems in Renaissance Spain. This book studies Catholic thought during the Spanish Renaissance, with the various contributors specifically exploring the ecclesiology and heresiology of the period. Today, these two subjects... Read more

Introduction

Xavier Tubau

Chapter 1: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s Conciliarism in his Lost De potestate papae et concilii

Ignacio García Pinilla

Chapter 2: Theorizing in Trent: Alfonso de Castro, Anti-Heretical Theory, and the Politics of Reform

Kimberly Lynn

Chapter 3: Conflicting Loyalties: Church Freedom, Pastoral Care and Civil Duties in Diego de Álava y Esquivel

Xavier Tubau

Chapter 4: Conciliarism and Episcopalism in the Council of Trent. The Position of the Spanish Bishops

Ignasi Fernández Terricabras

Chapter 5: Heresy and the Language of Catholicism in Sixteenth Century Spain (1558-1560)

María José Vega

Chapter 6: Antonio de Córdoba on the Relationship between Council and Pope

Thomas M. Izbicki

Chapter 7: Christian Freedom and Natural Freedom: An Introduction to an Archeology of Catholic Controversies over Slavery

Rafael Pérez García

Chapter 8: Ecclesiastical Romanism and Spanish Universalism: Post-Tridentine Ecclesiology in Light of the Intra-Ecclesiastical Doctrinal Controversies

Paolo Broggio

Biography

Xavier Tubau is a tenured scientist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. He was previously tenured professor at Hamilton College. He holds a PhD in Spanish Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Tubau’s volume deserves a wide readership. The scholarship on display here is excellent, and the conclusions provocative.

Lu Ann HomzaThe Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Summer 2025), pp. 576-577