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The Many Faces of Credulitas is about the relationship between belief, credibility, and credulity. It argues that due to a series of different historical factors, credibility assumed a central role in post-Reformation Catholicism. This led to an important reconsideration of the relationship between natural reason and supernatural grace and consequently to novel and significant tensions. This book seeks to elucidate some of the difficulties, an...

Stefania Tutino shows that post-Reformation Catholic culture was a rich laboratory for our current moral and hermeneutical anxieties.

A Fake Saint and the True Church offers the remarkable story of a fake saint to contemplate the meaning of truth. It follows the efforts made by the supposed saint's (real) seventeenth-century descendant to promote his cult in Naples and Rome. This story reminds us that distinguishing the true from the false is a matter of commitment and belief, not simply research ability. Compared with our early modern predecessors, we are more skilled at ve...

Examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. This book presents elements which are crucial to understanding the problems at stake, from both a political and a religious point of view.

This book provides a historical account of early modern probabilism and its theological, intellectual, and cultural implications. Tutino argues that probabilism played a central role in helping early modern theologians grapple with the uncertainties originated by a geographically and intellectually expanding world.

The first full-length study of the impact of Bellarmine's potestas indirecta in early modern Europe, this book follows the reactions to Bellarmine's theory across national and confessional boundaries. It offers a fresh interpretation of some of the most crucial political and theological knots in the history of post-Reformation Europe and challenges our understanding of 'modern' notions of power and authority.

This book looks at the remarkable life and writings of Thomas White (alias Blacklo), and his followers the Blackloists. It analyzes their interest in natural philosophy and offers a fresh interpretation of the role played by the 'new' science in the intellectual history of early modern Britain. It also explores White and the Blackloists's theological positions, showing how they tried to construct a philosophically grounded Catholic theology. F...