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WESEL, JOHANN RUCHRAT VON (d. 1481)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 526 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WESEL, JOHANN RUCHRAT VON (d. 1481) , German theologian, was born at Oberwesel early in the 15th century. He appears to have been one of the leaders of the humanist
movement
  in Germany, and to have had some intercourse and sympathy with the leaders of the Hussites in Bohemia. Erfurt was in his day the headquarters of a humanism which was both devout and opposed to the realist metaphysic and the Thomist theology which prevailed in the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg. Wesel was one of the professors at Erfurt between 1445 and 1456, and was vice-
rector
  in 1458. In 146o he was appointed preacher at Mainz, in 1462 at Worms, and in 1479, when an old and worn-out man, he was brought before the Dominican inquisitor Gerhard Elten of Cologne. The charges brought against him took a theological turn, though they were probably prompted by dislike of his philosophical views. They were chiefly based on a treatise, De indulgentiis, which he had composed while at Erfurt twenty-five years before. He had also written De potestate ecclesiastica. He died under sentence of imprisonment for life in the Augustinian convent in Mainz in 148r.
It is somewhat difficult to determine the exact theological position of Wesel. Ullmann claims him as a " reformer before the Reformation," but, while he mastered the formal principle of Protestantism, that scripture is the sole
rule
  of faith, it is more than doubtful that he had that experimental view of the doctrines of grace which lay at the basis of Reformation theology. He held that Christ is men's righteousness in so far as they are guided by the Holy Ghost, and the love towards God is shed abroad in their hearts, which clearly shows that he held the medieval idea that
justification
  is an habitual grace implanted in men by the gracious at of God. He seems, however, to have protested against certain medieval ecclesiastical ideas which he held to be excrescences erroneously grafted on Christian faith and practice. He objected to the whole system of indulgences; he denied the infallibility of the church, on the ground. that the church contains within it sinners as well as saints; he insisted that papal authority could be upheld only when the pope remained true to the evangel; and he held that a
sharp
  distinction ought to be
drawn
  between ecclesiastical sentences and punishments, and the judgments of God.
The best account of Wesel is to be found in K. Ullmann's Reformers before the Reformation. His tract on Indulgences is published in Watch's Monumenta Medii Aevi, vol. i., while a report of his trial is given in Ortuin C:ratius's Fasciculus rerum expetendarumn et fugiendarum (ed. by Browne, London, 1690), and d'Argentre's Collectio judiciorum de novis erroribus (Paris, 1728). See also Otto Clemen's art. in
Herzog
 -Hauck's Realencyklopadie file prat. Theologie and Kirche (3rd ed.,
Leipzig
 , 1908), xxi. 127.


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