Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional

After During the late Middle Ages, the discernment of spirits went through a revolutionary transformation: from a wonderful charism invested by the Holy Ghost, it became a human science, based upon probabilities and conjectures, and under the tight control of the theological corporation. This new...

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Main Author: Fabián Alejandro Campagne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Porto 2014-01-01
Series:Via Spiritus
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Online Access: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/13009.pdf
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description After During the late Middle Ages, the discernment of spirits went through a revolutionary transformation: from a wonderful charism invested by the Holy Ghost, it became a human science, based upon probabilities and conjectures, and under the tight control of the theological corporation. This new discretio spirituum paradigm is known as «gersonian revolution» (because of Jean Gerson’s role in its propagation). Were the great Sixteenth Century charismatic saints enemies or supporters of this process of clericalization of religious enthusiasm? The aim of this paper is to offer some clues to the resolution of this dilemma, using as a test-case the figures of Ignatius Loyola and Teresa of Avila, two of the major references of early Counter-Reformation
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Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
Via Spiritus
discernment of spirits
institution
charism
Ignatius Loyola
Teresa of Avila
Counter-Reformation
title Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
title_full Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
title_fullStr Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
title_full_unstemmed Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
title_short Ignacio de Loyola y Teresa de Ávila. Inspectores de Espíritus : Institución y Carisma en los albores da la Era confesional
title_sort ignacio de loyola y teresa de avila inspectores de espiritus institucion y carisma en los albores da la era confesional
topic discernment of spirits
institution
charism
Ignatius Loyola
Teresa of Avila
Counter-Reformation
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