Patristic tradition and intellectual paradigms in the 17th century
By: edited by Silke-Petra Bergjan and Karla Pollmann
Series: Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation -- 52 = -- Studies in the late middle ages, humanism and the reformation -- 52,; Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation -- 52.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783161505812
Subjects: Study and teaching; Congresses; Church history; History of doctrines; Fathers of the church; Influence; Christianity
Description: "The reception of ancient Christian literature in the 17th century was not limited to theology or dogmatics; the multitude of genres is indicative of the way patristic texts were dealt with. Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopedias, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational conflict, philology, philosophical argumentation), the articles in this volume do not stop at a quantitative evaluation of patristic quotations in the 17th century bur also focus on the ways in which an altered understanding of patristic texts was linked to the changed conditions under which they were read. Alongside the progress made in scholarship in the 17th century, there was a crisis in education and breaks with tradition. One of the results of this was that Augustine in particular lost his previously unchallenged position."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
Notes: Contributions to a conference held in Zurich in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English or German.
Table of contents: title: Shaping early modern comparative studies: the significance of Christoph Arnold (1627-1685)  -- Ralph Häfner; title: Die Behandlung der Kirchenväter bei Pierre Bayle  -- Irene Dingel; title: "Same scene, and the same things acted": Augustine as intellectual paradigm in Alexander Ross (1590-1654)  -- Karla Pollmann; title: Johann Gerhards Tractatus de legitima Scripturae Sacrae interpretatione und die patristische Tradition  -- Johann Anselm Steiger; title: Verus narrator extiti, non callidus disputator: Johannes Coccejus' Lektüre der Kirchenväter im niederländischen Sabbatstreit  -- Silke-Petra Bergjan; title: Origen against Jerome in early modern Europe  -- Scott Mandelbrote; title: Athanasius von Alexandrien in der abendländischen Rezeption bis zur Frühen Neuzeit  -- Hanns Christof Brennecke; title: Augustine's legacy in the Dutch Remonstrants and the Cambridge Platonists  -- Diana Stanciu; title: Problem of evil in Augustine and Descartes -- Gareth B. Matthews.