Meaux reform circle

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The Meaux reform circle was an early 16th-century group of French humanist theologians and clergy who sought to reform the Catholic Church from within through biblical scholarship and preaching, anticipating some ideas of the Protestant Reformation.

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instanceOf Catholic reform group
humanist circle
religious reform movement
aim promotion of Bible reading among clergy and laity
reform of the Catholic Church from within
renewal of preaching based on Scripture
anticipated some ideas of the Protestant Reformation
context pre-Reformation Catholic reform in France
country Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
dissolvedBecauseOf increasing suspicion of heresy by French authorities
pressure from the Sorbonne in Paris
distinctFrom Lutheranism as a separate church
doctrine critique of clerical abuses
emphasis on justification by faith
emphasis on the authority of Scripture
endTime early 1520s
fieldOfWork biblical exegesis
pastoral ministry
theology
hasActivity biblical scholarship
pastoral reform
promotion of Scripture-centered piety
vernacular preaching
hasKeyFigure Guillaume Farel NERFINISHED
Gérard Roussel NERFINISHED
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples NERFINISHED
hasLanguage French
Latin
hasLeader Guillaume Briçonnet NERFINISHED
hasMember François Vatable NERFINISHED
Guillaume Briçonnet NERFINISHED
Guillaume Farel NERFINISHED
Gérard Roussel NERFINISHED
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples NERFINISHED
Michel d’Arande NERFINISHED
Noël Béda NERFINISHED
influenced French Reformation NERFINISHED
early French Protestantism
influencedBy Erasmian humanism
Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
locatedIn Diocese of Meaux NERFINISHED
Meaux NERFINISHED
Île-de-France region
surface form: Île-de-France
patron Guillaume Briçonnet NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
startTime c. 1518
theologicalOrientation Christian humanism
biblical humanism
timePeriod early 16th century

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Jacobus Faber Stapulensis associatedWith Meaux reform circle