Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
flawed. Like Schleiermacher, he constructed a kind of hierarchy of religions that put vulgar pagan superstitions on the lowest l ...
like the Gentiles, they endorsed no abominable license like the Muslims. Ficino says: [Christianity] doesn’t command that the ad ...
things seemed possible that later became impossible following the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation and the confessionaliza ...
asserts that God speaks through the Koran as well as through the Bible, even if the voice of God is sometimes lost on Muslims.^5 ...
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Part II Christian Humanism in the Renaissance and Reformation ...
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4 The Christian Humanism of John Calvin Nicholas Wolterstorff Many willfind my title perplexing. Lots of people, when they hear ...
movement arose, in good measure, in reaction to scholasticism. Scholasti- cism had become identified in the minds of many with i ...
because they forestall boredom. In his book about Calvin, the historian William Bouwsma well summarizes the humanist way of read ...
The humanists did not believe in erudition for its own sake, however. Erudition was always for the sake of some benefit; they be ...
Two things distinguished the evangelical wing of the Renaissance humanist movement from the movement in general. The evangelical ...
And what benefit, in turn, is to be gained from reading and rightly inter- preting Holy Scripture? We will learn, says Calvin, t ...
formation. Calvin’s aim is to cultivate biblically grounded devotion in his readers. The section of theInstitutesimmediately aft ...
expresses such general opposition; opposition to theology for its own sake, yes, but not opposition in general to learning for i ...
His point is rather that all such study is to be caught up into the life of Christian devotion by thanking the Spirit of God for ...
also very different from reading Scripture as a late twentieth-century inerr- antist says it should be read. Calvin was not an i ...
CALVIN’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL HUMANISM In one of his recent writings, the well-known contemporary German philoso- pher Jürgen Haberma ...
Augustine had allowed his tears to flow freely upon the death of his schoolboy friend. The death of his mother occurred after hi ...
In those last words,‘owed to our nature’, Calvin hints at one of his reasons for repudiating the Stoic ideal. It belongs to our ...
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