«Reformatio» and Renovation: A Relation between Sources and Future
This essay explores the rapport between categories such as novum and renovatio and the Protestant Reformation. The privileged connection between moder-nity and novum is evident: and insofar as the Reformation is considered one of the determining factors of the rise of modernity, it would be legi...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Pages: 95-111 |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the rapport between categories such as novum and renovatio and the Protestant Reformation. The privileged connection between moder-nity and novum is evident: and insofar as the Reformation is considered one of the determining factors of the rise of modernity, it would be legitimate to infer a strong link with the notion of novum. The relationship is more complicated than it appears at a first glance, as the Reformation did not aim at introducing any «novelty», as it rather aspired to restoring a lost purity. This essay will explore the rapport between Reformation and novum and novitas in the wider frame of modernity’s debt towards the Jewish-Christian sources of temporality. It will also consider the ambiguity of the early modern notion of renovatio, to assess the Reformation’s specific positioning. The genuine novelty of the Protestant Reformation, will be identified in the affirmation of an ever-renewing hermeneutical exercise. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/ANNALI_STUDI_RELIG_19201807 |