Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation
Title | Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Irena Dorota Backus |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004129283 |
Betr. u.a. Sebastian Castellio und den Druck bzw. die Rezeption von Werken der Kirchenväter in Basel.
Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)
Title | Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615) PDF eBook |
Author | Irena Backus |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2021-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004476172 |
This volume deals with the basic problem of how theologians of all confessions handled ancient, mainly Christian, history in the Reformation era. The author argues that far from being a mere tool of religious controversy, history was used throughout the 16th century to express profound religious and theological convictions and that historians and theologians of different confessions sought to define their religious identity by recourse to a particular historical method. By carefully comparing the types of historical documents produced by Calvinist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic circles, she throws a new light on patristic editions and manuals, the Centuries of Magdeburg, the Ecclesiastical Annals of Caesar Baronius and various collections of New Testament Apocrypha. Much of this material is examined here for the first time. The book substantially revises existing preconceptions about Reformation historiography and view of the past.
A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650
Title | A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew L. Thomas |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2010-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004183701 |
This book is the only book-length monograph comparing the impact of confessional identity on both halves of the Wittelsbach dynasty which provided Bavarian dukes and German emperors as well as its implications for late Renaissance court culture. It demonstrates that religious conflict led to the development of distinctly confessional court cultures among the main Wittelsbach courts. Likewise, it illuminates how these confessional court cultures contributed significantly to the splintering of Renaissance humanism along religious lines in this era. Concomitantly, it sheds new light on the impact of late medieval dynastic competition on shaping the early modern Wittelsbach courts as well as the important role of Wittelsbach women in the creation and continuation of dynastic piety in their roles as wives, mothers, and patronesses of the arts.
Mystery Unveiled
Title | Mystery Unveiled PDF eBook |
Author | Paul C.H. Lim |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195339460 |
Paul C. H. Lim offers an insightful examination of the polemical debates about the doctrine of the Trinity in seventeenth-century England, showing that this philosophical and theological re-configuration significantly impacted the politics of religion in the early modern period. Through analysis of these heated polemics, Lim shows how Trinitarian God-Talk became untenable in many ecclesiastical and philosophical circles, which led to the emergence of Unitarianism. He also demonstrates that those who continued to embrace Trinitarian doctrine articulated their piety and theological perspectives in an increasingly secularized culture of discourse. Drawing on both unexplored manuscripts and well-known treatises of Continental and English provenance, he unearths the complex layers of the polemic: from biblical exegesis to reception history of patristic authorities, from popular religious radicalism during the Civil War to Puritan spirituality, from Continental Socinians to English anti-trinitarians who avowed their relative independent theological identity, from the notion of the Platonic captivity of primitive Christianity to that of Plato as "Moses Atticus." Among this book's surprising conclusions are the findings that Anti-Trinitarian sentiment arose from a Puritan ambience, in which Biblical literalism overcame rationalistic presuppositions, and that theology and philosophy were not as unconnected during this period as previously thought. Mystery Unveiled will fill a significant lacuna in early modern English intellectual history.
Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547
Title | Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ocker |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2006-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047409981 |
This is a study of the religious controversy that broke out with Martin Luther, from the vantage of church property. The book shows how acceptance of confiscation was won, and how theological advice was essential to the success of what is sometimes called a crucial if early stage of confessional state-building.
A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli
Title | A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli PDF eBook |
Author | Torrance Kirby |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004175547 |
The great Florentine Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) made a unique contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Renaissance and Reformation, where classical theories of interpretation derived from Patristic and Scholastic sources engaged with new methods drawn from Humanism and Hebraism. Vermigli was one of the pioneers of the sixteenth century in acknowledging and harnessing the biblical scholarship of the medieval Rabbis. His eminence in the Catholic Church in Italy (until 1542) was followed by an equally distinguished career as theologian and exegete in Protestant Europe where he was professor successively in Strasbourg, Oxford, and finally in Zurich. The Companion consists of 24 essays divided among five themes addressing Vermigli s international career, hermeneutical method, biblical commentaries, major theological topics, and his later influence. Contributors include: Scott Amos, Michael Baumann, Jon Balserak, Luca Baschera, Maurice Boutin, Emidio Campi, John Patrick Donnelly SJ, Max Engammare, Gerald Hobbs, Frank James III, Gary Jenkins, Robert Kingdon, Torrance Kirby, William Klempa, Joseph McLelland, Charlotte Methuen, Christian Moser, David Neelands, Peter Opitz, Herman Selderhuis, Daniel Shute, David Wright, and Jason Zuidema.
The Serpent and the Rose: The Immaculate Conception and Hispanic Poetry in the Late Medieval Period
Title | The Serpent and the Rose: The Immaculate Conception and Hispanic Poetry in the Late Medieval Period PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley K. Twomey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2008-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047433203 |
The Serpent and the Rose examines the theological and liturgical context for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages, from primary sources in Iberian archives. Its main focus is a study of Marian poetry from Alfonso the Wise and Gonzalo de Berceo through to the poetry collections of the late fifteenth century, showing how poets took themes from the Bible and apocryphal literature, combining them to defend and praise Mary’s conception without sin. Individual chapters assess how they depicted Mary’s prefiguration in the Old Testament by the Woman who defeated the serpent, the young bride of the Song of Songs, or the semi-deity, Wisdom, how they portray her as the mystic rose and as the new Eve.