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The Medieval Church · 1401
On Distinguishing True from False Revelations
Jean Gerson · 1363–1429
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What it is
Tests for visionary claims — the visionary's humility, obedience, physical health, and whether the revelation serves anything beyond the visionary's own standing.
Why it lasted
The founding text of discernment as a discipline, written by a chancellor of Paris increasingly uneasy about the age's appetite for private revelation.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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