New Devotion - Atarashiki Shinjin

Japanese: 新しき信心 - あたらしきしんじん
New Devotion - Atarashiki Shinjin

...the movement and underlying ideas that attempted to purify and renew the Catholic Church's faith in Western Europe in the early 16th century prior to the Reformation. The "Devotio moderna" (New Piety) movement, which sought to revive a lively, inner faith centered on Christ, had already spread from the Netherlands to northern France since the Middle Ages. Erasmus and Lefebvre d'Etaples, who grew up under its influence and were also trained in humanistic methods, sought a new way of Christian faith by reexamining the original Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible and ancient patristic literature, which had previously been ignored by the Church. The former's "Instructions for the Christian Soldier" (1504) and "Critique of the Greek New Testament" (1516), and the latter's "Collation of the Psalms of the Old Testament" (1509) and "Annotated Epistles of St. Paul" (1512) were the results of this effort, and answered the question that many people had at the time: "How should we believe?"...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "New Faith" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…16世紀初頭の西ヨーロッパにおいて,宗教改革に先立ちカトリック教会の組織内でその浄化を図り信仰を刷新しようと試みた運動,またその根底にある考え方。すでに中世以来キリスト中心の生き生きとした内面的信仰を復活させようとする〈新しき信心Devotio moderna〉の運動がネーデルラントから北フランスにかけて広まったが,その影響下に育ち,人文主義的方法をも身につけたエラスムスやルフェーブル・デタープルは,従来教会が顧みなかった聖書のヘブライ語・ギリシア語原典や古代教父文学の再検討を通じて,新しいキリスト信仰のあり方を求めようとした。前者の《キリスト教兵士提要》(1504)や《校訂ギリシア語新約聖書》(1516),後者の《旧約詩篇校合》(1509)や《校注聖パウロ書簡》(1512)などはその成果であり,当時多くの人の胸に宿った〈いかに信ずべきか〉という問いに答えるものだった。…

※「新しき信心」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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