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thinking behind his decision to remain silent while occupying an official post in the Lutheran church reveals a network of fascinating and unexpected intellectual connections. Weigel’s ideas on indifference were informed by his reading of two other pre-modern proponents of indifference, Dionysius and Eckhart. The outcome of his engagement with the idea of indifference is his reflections on how decisions about orthodoxy and heresy are made, on what authority, and by whom. Weigel’s writings thus draw attention to the social circumstances in which theological truth is written and proclaimed, and indeed the process by which heresy is discovered and disowned. 264
Appendix • The Works of Valentin Weigel This list of Weigel’s works is based on the one found in Andrew Weeks’ monograph on Weigel, 701 as well as on the contents of the new critical edition of Weigel’s works. 702 Works with a star are the ones that Weeks gives an approximate date for. 1570 Zwene nützliche Traktate De vita beata De luce et caligine divina Vom Gesetz oder Willen Gottes (shortly after 1570) 1571 Bericht zur “Deutschen Theologie” Die vernünftige Kreatur *Gnothi seauton *Scholasterium christianum 1572 Vom wahren seligmachenden Glauben 1573 Daß das Wort Gottes in allen Menschen sei De vita Christi (after 1573) Handschriftliche Predigtensammlung (1573-1574) 1574 Einfälltiger Unterricht Wie der Glaube aus dem Gehör komme Vom himmlischen Jerusalem Von Betrachtung des Lebens Christi Seligmachende Erkenntnis Gottes 1575 *Vom seligen Leben *Gebetbuch (Büchlein vom Gebet) Vom judicio im Menschen 1576 Bericht vom Glauben Unterricht Predigte 701 Andrew Weeks, Valentin Weigel: German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). 702 Valentin Weigel, Schriften: Neue Edition, 14 Vols., (Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1996ff). 265
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- Page 277 and 278: Israel, A. (1888). M. Valentin Weig
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- Page 281 and 282: Payne, R. J. (Ed.). (1981). Meister
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thinking behind his decision to remain silent while occupying an <strong>of</strong>ficial post in <strong>the</strong><br />
Lu<strong>the</strong>ran church reveals a network <strong>of</strong> fascin<strong>at</strong>ing and unexpected intellectual connections.<br />
Weigel’s ideas on indifference were informed by his reading <strong>of</strong> two o<strong>the</strong>r pre-modern<br />
proponents <strong>of</strong> indifference, Dionysius and Eckhart. The outcome <strong>of</strong> his engagement with<br />
<strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> indifference is his reflections on how decisions about orthodoxy and heresy<br />
are made, on wh<strong>at</strong> authority, and by whom. Weigel’s writings thus draw <strong>at</strong>tention to <strong>the</strong><br />
social circumstances in which <strong>the</strong>ological truth is written and proclaimed, and indeed <strong>the</strong><br />
process by which heresy is discovered and disowned.<br />
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