Browsing by Autor "Erik Ellis"

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Agustín sobre el Katechon
(Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2023) Patricio Domínguez; Erik Ellis
Este artículo presenta la exégesis de Agustín del controversial pasaje escatológico de II Tesalonicenses 7 mediante el análisis de la virtud romana en el contexto de la discusión sobre el papel providencial del Imperio Romano. En contraste con muchos Padres griegos y latinos, la evaluación que hace Agustín del papel providencial de Roma es primariamente negativa: el imperio romano y la virtus en la que se apoya es un mal pero que contiene (de ahí katechon) males aún peores. Esta interpretación, presente en la Ciudad de Dios, diferencia a Agustín de la visión de sus predecesores lo sitúa como un pensador sui generis en lo que a esta cuestión se refiere.
Dissent from Mt. Ventoux: Between Christian and Secular Humanism in Petrarch’s de Ascensu Montis Ventosi
(Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2021) Erik Ellis
Petrarch’s letter de Ascensu Montis Ventosi has long served as the founding document of “renaissance humanism”. Since thebeginning of renaissance studies in the mid-nineteenth century, the letter has become almost a talisman for summoning the new, secular spirit of humanism that spontaneously arrived in Italy in the fourteenth century, took hold of the hearts and minds of Europeans in the fifteenth century, and led to cataclysmic cultural, religious, and political changes in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This reading, still common among non-specialists, especially in the English-speaking world, is overly simplistic and ignores Petrarch’s profound debt to classical and Christian tradition, obscuring the fundamentally religious character of the letter. This article examines how scholars came to assign the letter so much importance and offers an interpretation that stresses Petrarch’s continuity with tradition and his desire to revitalize rather than reinvent the traditions of Christian scholarship and contemplation.