Nicholas of Cusa's Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform (Studies in the History of Christian Thought) (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 182)

Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Timeline: Life and Major Works
Timeline: Brixen and Roman Reforms
1 Introduction
	Cusanus and Late Medieval Reform
	Interpretations of the Later Cusanus
	Reform Ideas and the Brixen Sermons
2 The Ecclesiastical Context of the Brixen Sermons
	Cusanus and the Brixen Episcopate
	Cusanus as Bishop of Brixen
	Conflicts of Authority in Brixen
	Reforms of the Brixen Episcopate
	Sermons of the Brixen Episcopate
3 The Intellectual Context of the Brixen Sermons
	Cusanus and the Dionysian Hierarchies
	Dionysian Hierarchies in the Early Conciliarism
	Dionysian Hierarchies after the Papal Turn
	Dionysian Hierarchies during the Brixen Episcopate
	Dionysian Hierarchies, Church Hierarchy, and the Brixen Sermons
4 Images of Church and Reform in the Brixen Sermons
	Reform Ideas in the Brixen Sermons
	Corpus Mysticum as Image of the Church
	Christiformitas as Image of Personal Reform
	Corpus Mysticum, Christiformitas, and the Dionysian Hierarchies
5 Monastic Reform in the Brixen Sermons
	Monastic Reform and the Brixen Religious
	1453 Monastic Visitation Sermons
	1454 Monastic Visitation Sermons
	1455 Monastic Visitation Sermons
	1457 Monastic Visitation Sermons
	Preaching Monastic Reform in Brixen
6 Pastoral Reform in the Brixen Sermons
	Pastoral Reform and the Brixen Clergy
	1453 Synodal Sermon
	1454 Synodal and Chapter Visitation Sermons
	1455 Synodal Sermon
	1457 Synodal Sermon
	Preaching Pastoral Reform in Brixen
7 Pastoral Reform in Rome
	Reform in Renaissance Rome
	Cusanus in Rome
	1459 Roman Synodal Sermon
	1459 Roman Visitation Sermons
	1459 Reformatio Generalis
	Preaching Pastoral Reform in Rome
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index