Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 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 metaphysics and the Thomist theology which prevailed in the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg.

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  • Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 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 metaphysics 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 1460 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 1481. It is somewhat difficult to determine the exact sexual orientation 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 act 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 Walch's Monumenta Medii Aevi, vol. i. , while a report of his trial is given in Ortwin's Fasciculus rerum expetendarvm el fugiendarum (ed. by Browne, London, 1690), and d'Argentre's Collectio judiciorum de novis erroribus (Paris, 1728).
  • Johann von Wesel, auch Hanns vom Hain, eigentlich Johann Ruchrath von Oberwesel,, spätmittelalterlicher Theologe. Er studierte ab 1441 an der Universität Erfurt, wurde 1445 Magister und 1446 Lehrer der Theologie in Erfurt, 1456 wurde er Doktor der Theologie. 1456 bis 1457 war er Rektor in Erfurt. Um 1460 ging er als Prediger nach Mainz (?) (Schon 1460 ist er als Domherr in Worms bezeugt). 1463 bis 1477 war er Domprediger in Worms. Seine "Disputatio adversus indulgentias" sowie die gegen die Ansprüche des Papsttums gerichtete Schrift "Von der Autorität, Pflicht und Vollmacht der geistlichen Hirten" bewirkten 1477 die Absetzung und Versetzung als Dompfarrer nach Mainz sowie 1479, nach Haft im Barfüßerkloster, dem späteren Jesuiten Kloster, seine Vorladung vor ein Ketzergericht in Mainz, von dem er sich vom päpstlichen Großinquisitor Gerhard von Elten zum Widerruf bewegen ließ (alle seine Schriften wurden verbrannt); Johann blieb trotzdem bis zu seinem Tod 1481 im Augustinerkloster in Kerkerhaft.
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  • Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 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 metaphysics and the Thomist theology which prevailed in the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg.
  • Johann von Wesel, auch Hanns vom Hain, eigentlich Johann Ruchrath von Oberwesel,, spätmittelalterlicher Theologe. Er studierte ab 1441 an der Universität Erfurt, wurde 1445 Magister und 1446 Lehrer der Theologie in Erfurt, 1456 wurde er Doktor der Theologie. 1456 bis 1457 war er Rektor in Erfurt. Um 1460 ging er als Prediger nach Mainz (?) (Schon 1460 ist er als Domherr in Worms bezeugt). 1463 bis 1477 war er Domprediger in Worms.
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