Shadows of doubt : language and truth in post-reformation Catholic culture / Stefania Tutino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tutino, Stefania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--History--Modern period, 1500-.

Catholic Church.

Truth--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Truth.

Language and languages--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stefania Tutino shows that the hermeneutical and epistemological anxieties that characterize our current intellectual climate are rooted in the early modern world.

Contents:

Cover; Shadows of Doubt; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Looking out from the Edge of the Cliff : History, Language, and Truth ; 1. Telling the Truth: Equivocation and Mental Reservation Between Morality and Hermeneutics

2. Writing the truth: Agostino Mascardi and Post-Reformation Historiography by Way of Paul Ricoeur 3. Writing the Truth: Ecclesiastical History and its Critics ; 4. Rhetoric, Truth, and the Truth ; 5. The Sacrament of Language and the Curse of Speech ; Notes ; Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-932499-9

1-306-13637-7

OCLC:

863157432