Reformation and Scholasticism
Subtitle: An Ecumenical Enterprise (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)
Contributors: Willem J. van Asselt (Editor); Eef Dekker (Editor)
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801022425
Subjects: Christianity; Religion - Theology; Christianity - Theology - Protestant; Religion; Scholasticism; Christian Theology - Protestant; Christianity - History - General; Theology; Church History, Theology: Historical Theology; Religion / Church History; Christianity - Theology - General; Christian Theology - General; Protestantism
Description: Historical theologians have commonly held that no close connection exists between the two major intellectual movements of the sixteenth century--Reformation and Calvinist Scholasticism. Recent scholarship, however, has brought to light a number of theological misconceptions and historical inaccuracies leading some researchers to claim that Calvinist Scholasticism is not a betrayal, but a continuation of the heritage of the Reformation.

Reformation and Scholasticism brings together papers presented at a colloquium in May 1997 at Utrecht University by thirteen highly respected European and American church historians. These essays focus on both the backward-looking relationship between the Reformation and Medieval Scholasticism and the forward-looking relationship between the Reformation and Protestant Scholasticism.

This collection of recent scholarship provides important considerations for scholars, students, and historians of the Reformation and the sixteen and seventeenth centuries.
Table of contents: title: Introduction - Willem J. van Asselt, Eef Dekker; title: The Problem of Protestant Scholasticism - A Review and Definition - Richard A. Muller; title: Wittenberga contra Scholasticos - Cornelis Augustijn; title: Reformation and Scholasticism - Willem van 't Spijker; title: Scholasticism and Reformation - Antonie Vos; title: Thomism in Zanchi's Doctrine of God - Harm Goris; title: An Ecumenical Debate between Reformation and Counter-Reformation? Bellarmine and Ames on liberum arbitrium - Eef Dekker; title: Traces of the Rise of Reformed Scholasticism in the Polemical Theologian William Whitaker (1548-1595) - Frits G. M. Broeyer; title: John Owen: A Reformed Scholastic at Oxford - Sebastian Rehnman; title: Gisbertus Voetius (1589--1676): Basic Features of His Doctrine of God - Andreas J. Beck; title: Cocceius Anti-Scholasticus? - Willem J. van Asselt; title: Puritan Theology as Historical Event: A Linguistic Approach to the Ecumenical Context - Carl R. Trueman; title: Scholasticism and Contemporary Systematic Theology - Luco J. van den Brom; title: Scholasticism and Hermeneutics - Bert Loonstra; title: Index