... obsession this scholarship imputes to its subjects. Implicit faith emerges again and again in these theorizations not just as a menace to, but also a condition of, strong belief. Nor is this a local phenomenon: examples are drawn from a wide doctrinal and chronological range (William Perkins, Godfrey...

... the conditions for the emergence of a secular space of toleration in which religious differences, among other things, could be discussed.5 It’s a narrative that reiterates the contrasts drawn by reformers themselves between the merely implicit faith required by Rome and the exercise of reason required...

... to incremental improvements in the virtues of charity and justice was sufficient, and, indeed, a failure to accept that many would be saved by mere implicit faith (156). For the great success of medieval Christi- anity, on Gregory’s account, was the simple fact that it was an “institution- alized worldview...

... objects acquire the aura of the sacred. While the Barnwell monument engages with a high church view of the sacraments as signs of remembrance, the manuscript box reveals Montagu turning from the sacramental to the superstitious. This object displays how religious faith and personal belief bleed into each...

...- lier implicit argument for her capacity to rule, in this case through her witty demonstration of her ability to reconcile her economic dependence and her political autonomy by articulating her view that the former should not affect the latter—and by doing so...

... works; and implicitly again, in Book 2, by having Niccoli recant the statements advanced in Book 1. Implicit criticism in Book 1 has been addressed by many Bruni scholars. Mortensen, for instance, proposes that on the author s level, the debate staged in Book 1 between Niccoli and Salutati is over...

..., 1986), 25–61. 24 See further Simpson, “Faith and Hermeneutics.” 23 For an example by Lord Reid in 1975, see P. F. Smith and S. H. Bailey, The Modern English Legal System (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1984), 240; discussed in Simpson, “Faith and Hermeneutics,” 221. 22 Knapp...

... context for exposing the affective attachments implicit in their editing methods. Kiernan's most famous intervention as a critic of Beowulf is his suggestion of a firmly late date for the poem, which breaks faith with the two other major positions cited above: first, of critics who use empirical...

... represents a conventional point of demarcation.6 Nevertheless, over the last twenty-­five years certain interpretative trends have contributed to blurring and breaking down the boundaries implicit in these models of periodization. This may be illustrated with refer- ence to four broad processes...

... and dearest of fatherhood” and “Mine own dear child”; he salutes Mary as “Sister of my soul,” and she replies, “My most faithful friend and dear father” or “Father of my soul, faithful friend.”7 Anna died shortly after Nicholas, but Mary, whom Crashaw revered as his spiritual mother, remained...

... of compensating — satis- f y i n g — G od . 18 Penance, that is, as a set of stages dependent on a prescribed rubric of sin and recompense, involved the sinner him or herself literally making enough to placate God. The implicit but underexplored obverse of this equation is that pen- itential...

... of right lintel. Author’s photo. built together spiritually” – while the central motifs of the portal evoke the text’s lapis angularis. In this respect, Christ is to be understood as uniting the faithful at the top through his head as the keystone and at the bottom through the cross (combined...

...,” 1234,” Byzantinische Forschungen 20 (1994): 197–233. 64 Harris, 178–79. 63 Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades , 183–85. 62 The implicit parallel is with the controversy over indulgences that began the Lutheran Reformation. 61 Thomas Freeman, “ ‘St. Peter Did Not Do Thus...

... at which a previously implicit Christian consensus about marriage and celibacy reached a consequential degree of explicitness. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33:3, Fall 2003. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2003 / $2.00. And yet...

... make him an implicit sponsor of Passion drama, and thus he is punished, in the play’s logic, not only for allowing host desecration, but for allowing indecorous playing. That pun- ishment, in line with Reformation antiludic and anti-­Catholic discourse (as well as anti-­Spanish sentiment...

... led by the theological virtue of faith and practices whose teleology was incorpo- ration in the mystical body of Christ, the Church. The first discussion of “the Catholic Eucharist” in Practicing New Historicism comes in the introduction. It is invoked as the “closest analogy” to myths about...

... “It is morning in America” — the pathos animating the defenders of con- temporary, liberal-­secular society is one of systemic and inexorable prog- ress licensed less by its supposed (though in fact strangely elusive) internal rationality than by the anticipated fulfillment of its implicit promise...

..., par- ticularly its spiritual significance, has long been accepted. This change is, of course, fundamental to Weber’s argument: with Protestantism’s new empha- sis on justification by faith alone, spiritual works have no purchase on God. Instead, “worldly activity” (or work) becomes the proof...

... biblical passages with special significance for French Protes- tants. One plate paraphrases a section of the French Confession of Faith (fols. 32v–­33r), while another quotes from the Genevan Catechism (fols. 24v–­ 25r). By citing these scriptural passages, Perret situated his work within...

... to foster a culture of civility, “honneur,” “honeste,” “good maner,” and “justice” coexists alongside notions of good husbandry and efficient financial management. The contrasting purposes reflect a tension implicit in Christian magnificence: a moral anxiety about the relationship between status...