Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

  • Auteur: Badea, Andreea; Boute, Bruno; Cavarzere, Marco; Vanden Broecke, Steven
  • Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
  • Collection: Scientiae Studies
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048550043
  • Lieu de publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Année de publication électronique: 2021
  • Mois : Avril
  • Pages: 336
  • Langue: Anglais
Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, the awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element of "Baroque Science". Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself; including the notion that truth is out there, universal, and therefore situated at one remove from human manipulations. This book addresses the central question of how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, amidst uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. An international and interdisciplinary team of experts in fields ranging from Astronomy to Business Administration to Theology investigate a number of practices that are central to maintaining and functionalizing the notion of absolute truth, the certainty that could be achieved about it, and of the credibility of a wide plethora of actors in differentiating fields of knowledge.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • A Product’s Glamour. Credibility, or the Manufacture and Administration of Truth in Early Modern Catholicism
    • Bruno Boute, Andreea Badea, Marco Cavarzere, and Steven Vanden Broecke
  • Part I: Accommodating
    • 1. Scholastic Approaches to Reasonable Disagreement
      • Rudolf Schuessler
    • 2. Regulating the Credibility of Non-Christians: Oaths on False Gods and Seventeenth-Century Casuistry
      • Marco Cavarzere
    • 3. How to Be a Catholic Copernican in the Spanish Netherlands
      • Steven Vanden Broecke
    • 4. Appearance and Essence: Speaking the Truth about the Body in the Early Modern Catholic Church
      • Brendan Röder
  • Part II: Performing
    • 5. Saving Truth: Roman Censorship and Catholic Pluralization in the Confessionals of the Habsburg Netherlands, 1682–1686
      • Bruno Boute
    • 6. The Production of Truth in the Manufacture of Saints. Procedures, Credibility and Patronage in Early Modern Processes of Canonization
      • Birgit Emich
    • 7. Credibility of the Past: Writing and Censoring History within Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
      • Andreea Badea
    • 8. Heresy and Error in the Assessment of Modern Philosophical Psychology
      • Leen Spruit
    • 9. Modern Philosophy and Ancient Heresies: New Wine in Old Bottles?
      • Maria Pia Donato
  • Part III: Embedding
    • 10. Experiences Are Not Successful Accompaniments to Knowledge of the Truth
      • Vittoria Fiorelli
    • 11. Choosing Information, Selecting Truth: The Roman Congregations, the Benedictine Declaration, and the Establishment of Religious Plurality
      • Cecilia Cristellon
    • 12. Disciplining the Sciences in Conflict Zones: Pre-Classical Mechanics between the Sovereign State and the Reformed Catholic Religion
      • Rivka Feldhay
  • Index

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