HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 77: William Farel, Conciliarism, Themistius
7 Apr 2020
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In his mystical theology, he makes the case for mystical experience as its own affective or experiential source of knowledge. It also can be connected to the later growth of empiricism in the face of rationalism: humanism and conciliarism. Gerson did not dream of luther style schism. We can see him in a curious mix of humanism and conciliarism. French humanists begin to push back against the papacy in the name of church counsels. They would be doing the same in gerson"s footsteps: to faber and farel. At the dawn of the 16th century, they were able to build on the earlier of gerson and d"ailly. Faber and especially farel would take french christianity in directions that gerson and pierre wouldn"t have liked: faber. Faber was the elder of the two and belonged to the older generation of humanists. He helped bring ideas from the italian humanists northward: faber"s background.
