Table of Contents
Editor's Preface Elsie McKee ix
Author's Preface for the English Translation Marijn de Kroon xi
Introduction xv
1 Augustine Makes His Entrance xv
2 Through the Back Door of Canon Law (Corpus Iuris Canonici) xvii
3 Augustine's Criticism of Mani's Epistula fundamenti xviii
4 Introductory Note to Chapter 1 xxi
Chapter 1 Six Interpretations 1
1 William of Occam (d. 1347) 1
2 Hermann von Schildesche (d. 1357) 5
3 Gregory of Rimini (d. 1358) 8
4 Pierre d'Ailly (d. 1420) 12
5 Thomas Netter Waldensis (d. 1430) 17
6 Gabriel Biel (d. 1495) 21
Chapter 2 Who Has Authority in the Church? 27
1 Wessel Gansfort's Interpretation 27
2 Why Did Wessel Gansfort Write This? 30
3 Excursus: Gansfort and Luther 32
4 Preliminary Remarks on the Present Edition of Wessel Gansfort's Treatise on Authority in the Church 33
5 The Text: Wessel Gansfort, Ecclesiastical Dignity and Power 34
Chapter 3 Martin Bucer and Wessel Gansfort: Exploratory Forays 67
1 Introduction 67
Bucer's Commentary on Romans 8:18 67
Bucer Chooses Wessel Gansfort 68
2 Exploratory forays 70
Wessel's Treatise De Eucharistia 70
Wessel's Treatise De potestate ecclesiastica 73
Edification and Piety 75
Religious Office as a Position 77
3 Antithetical Formulations 79
4 "Nature Is...the Will of God." 84
5 Wessel's Praise of Francis of Assisi 85
6 Concluding Remarks 86
Abbreviations 89
Sources and Secondary Literature 91
Biblical Index 97
Name Index 99