Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith
An early dissertation on the bloodsucking at Medvedia (1732)
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11348141 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Damian Shaw (0000-0002-4162-1079, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, autor de correspondencia), Matthew Gibson (0000-0002-1894-2472, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 50 |
| Número | 7 |
| Páginas | 1169-1186 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2024.2365140 |
| OpenAlex | W4399526122 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 7 |
One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attacked the findings from a position of scientific scepticism enshrouded with Lutheran theology in his thesis Concerning the Blood-Sucking Corpses of those so-called Vampires or People-Suckers. While he is best remembered for first proposing the incubus or nightmare of sleep paralysis as being the real cause of the superstition, his major contribution was theological, concerning the relation between body and soul. And yet while Nöbling provides a rigorous, scripture-based denial of vampirism, his framework necessarily accommodates contemporary medical theory, demonstrating both the adaptation of theology to science and the extent to which pneumatology still inhered in scientific enquiry
Faith · Theology · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |