Novo sensu sacram adulterare Scripturam
Clement VI and the Political use of the Bible
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23232532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Wood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Pages | 237-249 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History Subsidia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-0459 • E-ISSN: 2632-9913 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0143045900003653 |
| OpenAlex | W2497687735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Medieval biblical commentators traditionally interpreted the Bible in terms of the ‘four senses’ of Scripture—the literal-historical and the three ‘spiritual’ senses, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical. Recently attention has been focused on the use of a variation of the allegorical sense, namely, political allegory. This was the application of a biblical text to a current political situation or argument. The Roman revolutionary Cola di Rienzo, after hearing Pope Clement VI preach in consistory, gave it another name altogether— sensum adulterum . Clement had apparently delivered the customary papal allegorization of the two-swords passage ( Luke , xix. 38), according to which both swords, that of spiritual authority and of physical power, were in the hands of the priesthood.
Allegory · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Biblical studies · Linguistics · Literal (mathematical logic) · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Theology · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |