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Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther
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Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther Hardcover - 2003

by Zdeněk V. David


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Can an orthodox Christian creed and ritual be combined with a liberal church administration and a tolerant civic acceptance of not-so-orthodox views and practices? This question--perennial among Catholics for the past two centuries and the goal of the Anglican quest for a via media--finds an affirmative answer in Zdenek V. David's history of the Utraquist church of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bohemia.

This church declared its autonomy from the Roman church in 1415 after the Bohemian preacher Jan Hus, who had decried clerical abuses and opposed the pope's doctrinal and juridical authority, was condemned by a Roman church council and executed. Sometimes called "Hussitist" (a usage David attacks for exaggerating Hus's role; "Utraquist" is the Latinized form of the Czech name it adherents used) this Bohemian church administered its institutions and educated and managed its clergy independently of Rome for the next two hundred years.

David's book focuses on the middle course steered by the Utraquists after the onset of the Protestant Reformation. It rejected core Protestant beliefs, such as salvation by faith alone, and practices, going so far in emphasizing apostolic succession as to have its new priests ordained by Latin-rite or, in a few cases, Eastern-rite Uniate bishops. At the same time, the Utraquists pursued their orthodoxy by disputation rather than hurling anathemas and lived alongside Lutherans, the Unity of Brethren, and others. Ultimately the Utraquist church was reabsorbed into Roman Catholicism and its special features repressed in the Counter-Reformation.

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In this study, I seek a balanced view of the Bohemian Utraquist Church during the second century of its existence, 1517 to 1621.

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  • Title Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther
  • Author Zdeněk V. David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date July 29, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780801873829 / 0801873827
  • Weight 2.06 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.04 x 5.38 x 1.77 in (25.50 x 13.67 x 4.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bohemia (Czech Republic) - Church history, Utraquists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003003821
  • Dewey Decimal Code 284.3

About the author

Zdenek V. David was librarian of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1974 to 2002. Educated as a historian (Ph.D. Harvard, 1960), he has published numerous articles on the history of Utraquism and on Jews in Czech historiography; he is coauthor of The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918.

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