Between Creativity and Norm-Making

Sigrid Müller, Dr. (1999) in Theology, University of Tübingen, is Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She has done extensive research in the fields of Late Medieval nominalism and history of ethics, including Handeln in einer kontingenten Welt: Zu Begriff und Bedeutung der recta ratio bei Wilhelm von Ockham (Tübingen/Basel, 2000).Mag. Cornelia Schweiger is research assistant in Moral Theology at the University of Vienna. She has worked on the History of Moral Theology (especially on the question of Natural Law) and on the relationship between faith and ethics with a special focus on John Rawls.Contributors include: Heribert Smolinsky, Volker Leppin, Renate Dürr, Thomas Simon, Rudolf Schüßler, Marianne Schlosser, Hans Schelkshorn, Christian Thomas Leitmeir, Thomas Brogl, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Henrik Wels, Hermann Hold, Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger.

• Introduction: Between Creativity and Norm-Making Sigrid Müller and Cornelia Schweiger From Virtue Ethics to Normative Ethics? Tracing Paradigm Shifts in Fifteenth-Century Commentaries on the Nicomachean EthicsSigrid Müller Sine Auctoritate Nulla Disciplina Est Perfecta: Medieval Music Theory in Search of Normative FoundationsChristian Thomas Leitmeir “Ÿeglichs Nãch Sín Vermugen” Johannes Nider’s Idea of ConscienceThomas Brogl Amt, Lehramt, CharismaDie Bedeutung von Prudentia, Discretio und Norm zur Zeit der Ersten Melker Reform Meta Niederkorn-Bruck “…Den Seelen Helfen”Neues Und Traditionelles in der Spiritualität des Ignatius von Loyola und der Ersten JesuitenMarianne SchlosserBusiness Morality at the Dawn of Modernity: The Cases of Angelo Corbinelli and Cosimo De’ Medici Rudolf Schüssler Anthropology Before and After the Discovery of America: Continuity and Change in the Question of the Sameness of Souls Henrik Wels The Change of Geographical Worldviews and Francisco De Vitoria’s Foundation of a Modern CosmopolitanismHans Schelkshorn The Better Human Being: The Dispute on Morality in Humanism and the Reformation Heribert Smolinsky Justification Theology and Human Action: On the Foundation of Ethics in Early Lutheranism Volker LeppinConfession as an Instrument of Church Discipline: A Study of Catholic and Lutheran Confessional Manuals from the 16th and 17th Centuries Renate Dürr “Policing” And Morality: On the State Regulation of Faith and Morality in the Policy Decrees of the Early Modern Period Thomas Simon Beholding Saint Christopher: A Contrast to the Belief in Death Hermann Hold Bibliography

‘’This is a valuable contribution to the growing study of the transitions between the medieval and early modern period, one which provides valuable food for thought and space for further examination of important aspects of a crucial period of historical and cultural transition and innovation’’.Jennifer L. Welsh, College of Charleston. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2014, p. 567.