The French clergyman John Gerson (1363-1429) was a leader of the Conciliar movement. He is known for his efforts in ending the Great Schism. John Gerson was born Jean Charlier at Gerson on Dec. 13, 1363. He attended the College of Navarre at the...

Jean Gerson is a figure of contradictions: at once a shrewd politician and a convinced mystic, a radical reformer and a conservative theologian, a university chancellor and a poet as well as a preacher, a humanist, and an extraordinarily prolific...

Gerson, Jean De(1363 bingen: Mohr, 1986. Ryan, John J. The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press,...

(Jean Charlier; 1363–1429). Theologian, scholar, teacher, translator, poet, mystic, and humanist, Gerson was one of the most illustrious and prolific writers of the late Middle Ages. One of twelve children, he grew up in a pious household in...

Jean Charlier de Gerson (December 13, 1363[1] – July 12, 1429), French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of...

Jean Gerson: Early Works. Translated and introduced by Brain Patrick Maguire, with a preface by Bernard McGinn. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1998. xvi + 482 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). These days, if you know anything of Jean Gerson...

The Apostolic Conciliarism of Jean Gerson. By John J. Ryan. American Academy of Religion, The Religions 4. Atlanta: Scholars, 1998.96 pp. $24.95 cloth. Forty-five years after the publication of Brian Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), indications...

In following essay, Pascoe discusses Gerson's ideas concerning the “primitive Church,” the Church in its earliest days, which held a central place in his teachings on Church reform.

In the following essay, Pascoe explores how Gerson's views on ecclesiastical reform are rooted in the reformation of the individual.

In the essay that follows, Caiger discusses how Gerson's views of teaching shifted over time, from an emphasis on “how one may be confident that what is taught is true” to “how one may know that the teacher has a right to teach and may therefore be trusted.”