Deus Est Caritas: The Voice of Gabriele Biondo on Personal Justification and Church Reform

Vito Guida obtained his master's degree in Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute with a dissertation on the Sacri Monti, in which he explored how their notion gradually shifted from a geographical structure, which attempted to reconstruct the loca sancta, to an interior event that concentrated on personal suffering. In the following years, he continued his doctoral research on religious piety in Early Modern Italy while focusing on the writings of the secular priest Gabriele Biondo. His focus has been on the relationship between philosophy and theology of the medieval and early modern periods, and on the interaction of cultural phenomena and intellectual ideas. Particularly, he has studied the development of theology within the Franciscan and Dominican areas and investigated the conflictual relationship between ecclesiastical institutions and laity. He has directed two seminars: the first was dedicated to the diatribe between Erasmus and Luther about free-will;the second examined various traditional works on predestination and grace by Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Aquinas. He is currently interested in the writings and pastoral activities of Giovanni Dominici, focusing on his Venetian period as a teacher of theology and leader of the Observance within the Dominican Order.

Vito Guida 在華堡研究所獲得文化與智識歷史碩士學位，論文主題為 Sacri Monti，探討其概念如何逐漸從一種地理結構轉變為一種專注於個人痛苦的內在事件，該地理結構試圖重建聖地。在接下來的幾年中，他繼續進行有關早期現代意大利宗教虔誠的博士研究，並專注於世俗神父 Gabriele Biondo 的著作。他的研究重點在於中世紀和早期現代時期哲學與神學之間的關係，以及文化現象與智識思想的互動。特別是，他研究了方濟會和多明我會領域內神學的發展，並調查了教會機構與平信徒之間的衝突關係。他主持過兩個研討會：第一個專注於伊拉斯謨與路德之間有關自由意志的辯論；第二個則檢視奧古斯丁、坎特伯雷的安瑟倫、克萊爾沃的伯納德和托馬斯·阿奎那等人關於預定論和恩典的各種傳統著作。他目前對 Giovanni Dominici 的著作和牧靈活動感興趣，特別關注他在威尼斯期間作為神學教師和多明我會內部觀察者的領導角色。