Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
‘the Cappadocians’is a scholarly convention originating in the nineteenth century), they are celebrated as the models of true rh ...
stone. By plundering the Egyptians, all the elements of classicalpaideiawere brought under the power of the Word of God, with a ...
philosophers or poets actually having read the Hebrew Scriptures, it was a point of importance for Justin. It might be described ...
2 The Church Fathers and the Humanities in the Renaissance and the Reformation Irena Backus REFORMERS AND HUMANISTS In 1527 Hein ...
humanities as not just essential to grasping the principles of theology, and as a lead into the writings of the early church. He ...
Bullinger, as I pointed out elsewhere, received his humanist training in the context of the Northern Renaissance dominated by Er ...
things with the intellect. For a mind which teaches and shows that which is, is not God, but it can be said very rightly of God. ...
mysteries, and so Scripture is the crucial source of knowledge to all believers. However, those who are too young to understand ...
satirical writer, poet, and a pre-Tridentine Roman Catholic controversialist. Murner was born in Oberehnheim (Obernai), Alsace o ...
Jerome was whipped not for reading pagan literature in general and poetry in particular but for taking anexcessiveinterest in it ...
as to Bullinger, a theologian such as Augustine may be considered a poet, but Homer and other pagan authors cannot be thought th ...
a Christian orator who is a poor rhetorician should borrow from better writers.^20 The titles of theflorilegium’s extracts, draw ...
Melanchthon used the church fathers not so much for their eloquence as for their theology, while admitting that they also served ...
keeping with this principle, Melanchthon proposes to his students that he begin lecturing on Homer’s epic poetry and Paul’s lett ...
Lyon in 1535–40, he converted to the Reformation and left for Strasbourg, where he hoped to complete his theological studies wit ...
the end of Maccabees and the beginning of the New Testament with long extracts from Flavius Josephus.^32 His biblical endeavours ...
The above examination, partial though it is, shows us the range of early modern opinions about the role of the church fathers in ...
the prefatory letter, he decided to translate Basil mainly to share his own knowledge and experience with others. He also notes ...
completely new edition of Basil’s works based on the Greek editions of Erasmus (1532) and on the Reginald Pole/Stefano di Sabbio ...
In 1575, Dresser left Erfurt for Meissen where he took over as school rector. In 1581, he was appointed professor of Greek and L ...
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