Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez (Nov 2008)
La apologética antijudía de Juan Luis Vives (1543)
Abstract
In his apologia entitled De veritate fidei christianae (On the truth of the Christian Faith), Juan Luis Vives sought to achieve a synthesis between Judaism and Christianity, the latter conceived as a spiritual form of Judaism. Through the teachings of Thomist theology, the Bible, Aristotelianism and philological science, Vives sought to apply intelligence, God’s supreme gift to man, to the study –or rather the textual criticism– of the Holy Scriptures.
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