Conversion as Education: Persuading the Jews in Juan Luis Vives’s De veritate fidei christianae (1543)
This article explores how the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives (1492/93–1540) understood religious conversion. It argues that in his earlier pedagogical and psychological works – De institutione feminae christianae (1524), De officio mariti (1529), De disciplinis (1531), and De anima et vita (1538)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Medieval encounters
Year: 2025, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-46 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Juan Luis Vives B Jews B Education B Conversion B Reason B Humanism |
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| Summary: | This article explores how the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives (1492/93–1540) understood religious conversion. It argues that in his earlier pedagogical and psychological works – De institutione feminae christianae (1524), De officio mariti (1529), De disciplinis (1531), and De anima et vita (1538) – Vives developed a model of education and learning which would subsequently inform his direct treatment of religious conversion in his posthumously published work De veritate fidei christianae (1543). Vives envisaged conversion as a process akin to humanistic education where an individual, guided by a teacher through a process of learning and reflection, became able to control the passions and to exercise reason in order to embrace Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0674 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval encounters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12340207 |
