Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran Reception of Aquinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 342-358
Author(s):  
Steven J. Duby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
The Way ◽  
Critical Moments

This chapter provides an account of the way in which some major figures in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Reformed, Anglican, and Lutheran theology interacted with the theology of Thomas Aquinas. As in contemporary Protestant engagement of Aquinas, this reception of the Angelic Doctor’s thought has both appreciative and critical moments. The section on the Reformed tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the Systematic Theology of Charles Hodge and the early volumes of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics. The section on the Anglican tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the ecclesiological reflections of E. B. Pusey and Charles Gore. Finally, the section on the Lutheran tradition discusses the role of Aquinas in the work of Isaak Dorner.

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Farm Servants and the Family in Nineteenth-Century North Devon

2013 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Caroline Verney ◽  
Janet Few
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Way

This paper describes a small part of wider research into family and community in the nineteenth century undertaken by the late Caroline Verney. Her study of the north Devon parishes of Bittadon, Braunton, Georgeham, Marwood, Mortehoe and West Down centred on the way in which Victorian farming communities functioned, with investigations into kinship stemming from that core theme. At the same time, Janet Few was researching the role of kinship and its impact on community cohesion in three other areas of north Devon: Bulkworthy, Bucks Mills and Hatherleigh. Few's work on the farming parish of Bulkworthy is particularly relevant and has been used to complement Verney's findings for Mortehoe, which form the focus of this article. Together they have been used to investigate the employment of farm servants and the basis upon which they might have been chosen.

The Virtue of Justice and the Justice of Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Ryan Darr ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Structural Injustice ◽  
Personal Virtue ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Justice, according to Thomas Aquinas, is a personal virtue. Modern theorists, by contrast, generally treat justice as a virtue of social institutions. Jean Porter rightly argues that both perspectives are necessary. But how should we conceive the relationship between the virtue of justice and the justice of institutions? I address this question by drawing from Aquinas’s account of the role of the convention of money in mediating relations of just exchange. Developing Aquinas’s account, I defend two conclusions and raise one problem. The conclusions are: (1) Aquinas does presuppose the need for just institutions in just relations; (2) Aquinas highlights the importance of an underappreciated consideration: the way institutions mediate just or unjust relationships. The problem, which naturally arises from bringing together the virtue of justice and the justice of institutions, is whether and how individuals can act justly in a context of structural injustice.

scholarly journals Disciplinary Power and the Role of the Subject at a Nineteenth-Century Danish Asylum

PhaenEx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
BJØRN HAMRE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

This article reports on the ways in which psychiatric practice and power were constituted in a Danish asylum at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The point of departure will be a complaint by a former patient questioning the practice at the asylum in 1829. In an analysis of this narrative the study draws upon Foucauldian concepts like disciplinary power, confession, pastoral power and subjectivation. I will argue that the critique of the patient provides us with an example of the way that disciplinary power works in the case of an informal indictment of the methods and practice at an asylum. A key issue is whether the critique is not itself a part of the self-legitimation of disciplinary power.

Del mito gaucho al mito peronista: la decadencia del cine criollista en La cabalgata del circo (Soffici 1945)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Nicolás Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Hypothesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way ◽  
Second Degree

The article explores the decline of Criollista cinema during early Peronism, based on the study of Mario Soffici’s 1945 film La cabalgata del circo/Circus Cavalcade and the political circumstances around it, including Eva Duarte’s performance, the violent incidents during the premiere and the role of the censorship. The central hypothesis is that the film inaugurates a kind of symbolic relay: Peronism appropriates nineteenth-century emblems such as the gaucho myth or the romantic woman, and incorporates them into the emerging Peronist myth. This gives the Criollista cinema of the time the tone of a retreating criollismo, which is articulated as a second degree nostalgia: if criollismo was always marked by nostalgia for a pre-modern golden age, La cabalgata del circo reveals a nostalgia for that nostalgia, given that it is not only a Criollista story but also a history of criollismo. The research is based on the analysis of the film, its links with the historical-political context and the way it adapts the Criollista novel Juan Cuello, written by Eduardo Gutiérrez in 1880.

Aquinas and Agnosticism

Agnosticism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 163-185
Author(s):  
Paul O’Grady
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
The Way

Surprisingly little attention has been paid to clarifying the nature of agnosticism. As a stance in the philosophy of religion, it clearly emerged in the nineteenth century, although the earlier philosophical work of Hume and Kant paved the way for it. However, there is also an older, related tradition in philosophy and theology, called apophaticism, which makes the notion of ‘not knowing’ about God central to its concerns. How do these approaches relate to each other, if at all? To attempt an answer to this question, this chapter will explore an interpretation of the work of Thomas Aquinas which emphasizes apophaticism, and a related interpretation of his work which results in one of the most systematically articulated versions of contemporary agnosticism.

Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology—Part Two

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-357
Author(s):  
Michael Allen
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
The Way

Abstract In many times and various ways, some significant Reformed theologians have claimed that biblical theology must be coordinated with or contribute to the task of systematic theology. In these last days, they have even suggested that biblical theology should fill the place of systematic theology. Part One described the way in which Geerhardus Vos, John Murray, and Richard Gaffin have addressed the role of biblical theology in relation to systematic theology and analyzed their arguments. This essay will offer counterproposals regarding the origin, mainstreaming, and end of biblical theology (and theological interpretation of scripture) as exegetical therapies meant to serve the functioning of dogmatics and exegesis.

The Political Role of Hungary's Nineteenth-Century Conservatives and how they saw themselves

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Zoltán Dénes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Way

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, the Hungarian conservatives made a number of attempts decisively to influence the course of events in the Austrian empire and in the kingdom of Hungary, but failed on each occasion. What exactly had they wanted, and why did they fail to achieve it? How did they try to appear to others, and how did they see themselves? What political identity, if any, did they have? Was there anything special about the way their political activity and their perception of themselves bore on one another as compared to other nineteenth-century conservatives? What follows is an attempt to give answers to these questions.

Structure, Knowledge and Practice: Art Exhibitions and Power during the Nineteenth Century

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Gordon J. Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structure Knowledge ◽  
The Way

This paper concerns the relationship between nineteenth century art exhibitions and the social construction of the artist. Attention is focused on the institutional conditions which endorsed the fine artist in the role of an individuated creator within the context of the changing social relations of artistic production. In this way art exhibitions are considered as sites of cultural production and it is argued that matters of their organization relate fundamentally to both questions of power and the production of the artist's pictorial authority. An assessment of the problems that faced the powerful Royal Academy of Arts and its Exhibition points to the way in which such questions took on political and class hues in the context of a developing capitalist society. It is suggested that what is at stake here is the way in which the institution of the art exhibition relates to the emergence of a dominant tradition of creativity – symbolically restating the class situation of the bourgeoisie.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 311-320
Author(s):  
Elena A. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
African Descent ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
The Way

The conclusion explores the way the invasion and occupation of Havana has been remembered in Cuba, Spain, Britain, and the United States during the 250 years since these events transpired. In general, the role of people of African descent, the institution of racial slavery, and imperial rivalry over the slave trade has been whitewashed or left out of the story. In Spain and Cuba, nationalistic readings of the event have stressed the loyalty of people in Cuba to either Spanish empire or a burgeoning sense of Cuban patria. In Britain the event has virtually been forgotten, a history that went nowhere, other than to prove the strength of British arms. Instead, the obsession with capturing and controlling Cuba gained a second life in the United States. It influenced U.S. intervention in the Spanish-American-Cuban war in the nineteenth century and continues to haunt U.S.-Cuban relations to this day.

God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck’s Theological Epistemology T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology Nathaniel Gray Sutanto

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-229
Author(s):  
Hans Burger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
External World ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
P Content ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Awareness Of God

<p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">This study of the theological epistemology of the Dutch neo-Calvinist Herman Bavinck shows the significance of his organic thinking in the field of epistemology. This romantic holism enabled Bavinck to operate eclectically, creatively combining various sources, both orthodox and modern. The result is a theological epistemology that is both post-Kantian, accepting the role of mental representations, and realist. Bavinck combines elements from the idealism of Eduard von Hartmann with the realism of the theological tradition of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Furthermore, organic thinking helped Bavinck to understand the unity and variety of the sciences as well as the relationships between the subject, his primordial awareness of God and the world, due to a revealing activity of God, and the external world. <p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Die vorliegende Studie zur theologischen Epistemologie des niederländischen Neo-Calvinisten Hermann Bavinck zeigt die Bedeutung seines ,,organischen“ Denkens im Bereich der Epistemologie auf. Diese romantische Ganzheitlichkeit ermöglichte es Bavinck, gezielt auswählend vorzugehen und dabei verschiedene Quellen ‐ sowohl orthodoxe als auch moderne ‐ miteinander zu verbinden. Das Ergebnis ist eine theologische Epistemologie, die gleichermaßen realistisch wie post-kantianisch ist, weil sie die Rolle der geistigen Darstellung akzeptiert. Bavinck bringt Elemente des Idealismus eines Eduard von Hartmann mit dem Realismus der theologischen Tradition von Augustinus und Thomas von Aquin zusammen. Darüberhinaus half sein ,,organisches“ Denken Bavinck, die Einheit und Vielfalt der Wissenschaften zu verstehen wie auch die Bezieungen zwischen einem Subjekt, seiner elementaren Wahrnehmung Gottes und der Welt, was auf göttliche Offenbarung zurückzuführen ist, und der Welt um ihn herum. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Cette étude de l’épistémologie théologique du néo-calviniste néerlandais Herman Bavinck montre l’importance de sa pensée « organique » dans le domaine de l’épistémologie. Cet holisme romantique a permis à Bavinck d’opérer éclectiquement, combinant de manière créative des sources diverses, orthodoxes et modernes. Le résultat est une épistémologie à la fois post-kantienne, acceptant le rôle des représentations mentales, et réaliste. Bavinck conjugue des éléments empruntés à l’idéalisme d’Edouard von Hartmann et le réalisme de la tradition théologique d’Augustin et de Thomas d’Aquin. De plus, sa pensée « organique » a aidé Bavinck à comprendre aussi bien l’unité et la variété des sciences que les rapports entre le sujet, sa prise de conscience primordiale de Dieu et du monde grâce à une activité révélatrice de Dieu, et le monde extérieur.

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