Hledání zákonné autority v době vymknuté z kloubů. Jan hus a krize církve v kontextu pozdně středověkých debat [Searching for the Authority of Law in the Time Out of Joint. Jan Hus and the Crisis of the Church within the Context of Debates in the Later Middle Ages]

Abstract

The outbreak of Schism in 1378 introduced a shift in searching for a new source of authority which could legitimise the church reform. Since the early 1390s, the conciliar tradition preferring the canon law as the leading authority for determining the Schism has been constituted and sup-ported among French or German theologians. Nevertheless, in the late 1370s, John Wyclif devel-oped another solution for church reform favouring God’s law and the ideal of a top-down refor-mation led by righteous civil lords, which Jan Hus and his followers further adopted within the early 15th Century. Conciliarism and the English model for church reform proposed by Wyclif competed in politics after 1409. Recently, new sources treating the clashes over authority issues in the Middle Ages were published, which shed new light on the problem.

Keywords

• jan hus
• john wyclif
• conciliarism
• papal schism
• authority
• bohemian reformation