John Gill and the History of Redemption as Mere Shadow

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-400
Author(s):  
David Mark Rathel
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Accurate Reading

Abstract John Gill was an influential minister and theologian of the eighteenth century. Deeply influenced by the Reformed tradition, he made significant innovation to the doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Current surveys of his theology have unfortunately not adequately explored this innovation. The primary cause of this failure is a lack of attention to Gill’s historical context, a context shaped by doctrinal antinomianism and no-offer Calvinism. This article will contextualize Gill’s thought and provide a more accurate reading of his covenant theology by arguing that he offered a unique construction of the covenant of redemption that radically minimized human agency in the reception of salvation.

scholarly journals Seizures among the Participants of the Inconfidência Mineira as a Source for Research on the History of Books and Libraries (1789)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Figueiredo Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Books ◽  
Separatist Movement

ABSTRACT This article discusses the seizure of assets owned by the participants in the Minas Gerais State separatist movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira in Brazil, and whether these seizure records may serve as a source for research on the history of books, libraries, and general reading habits in Minas Gerais in the second half of the eighteenth century. First, the historical context of books and the intersection between the seizures and the region’s literary culture were examined. The possibilities and the limits to the use of these seizure records in the study of private libraries is also analyzed. Finally, some of the conspirators’ reading habits, which were influenced by the revolutionary ideas that circulated Europe and North America, are presented.

Rereading the Elocutionists: The Rhetoric of Thomas Sheridan's A Course of Lectures on Elocution and John Walker's Elements of Elocution

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa M. Spoel
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
History Of Rhetoric ◽  
History Of ◽  
Promotional Campaign ◽  
Harsh Criticism ◽  
Rhetorical Texts ◽  
Rhetorical Reading ◽  
British Culture

Subject to neglect and at times harsh criticism, the eighteenth-century British elocutionary movement merits reconsideration as a complex rhetorical episode within the history of rhetoric. Confirming the value of the rhetorical analysis of rhetorical texts, this essay examines the forms and functions of persuasion which two key treatises from the elocutionary movement enacted within their own socio-historical context. A rhetorical reading of Thomas Sheridan's A Course of Lectures on Elocution (1762) and John Walker's Elements of Elocution (1781) - informedby theories of ethos, logos, and pathos - illustrates the nuances of the different cases made for the scholarly and educational credibility of elocution as a new field of study within the context of late eighteenth-century British culture: Walker's text, while profiting from Sheridan's earlier promotional campaign for the value of elocutionary study, attempts to redress the excesses of his forerunner's “florid harangue[s]” and to fill in the gaps of his incomplete instructional method.

scholarly journals Les traductions polonaises des Lettres persanes de Montesquieu

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Paweł Matyaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
History Of

Polish translations of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters The purpose of the present article is to show the history of Polish translations of a famous epistolary novel Persian Letters written in 1721 by Montesquieu. In his work, the author neither introduces linguistic matters of the translations, nor he analyses their correctness; however, he presents strictly historical and cultural aspects of the process of translation. What is more, the article aims at presenting the intentions of Polish translators, the historical context of their work and its importance for a Polish reader. Regardless of the era when they produced their translations, starting as early as the eighteenth century, Polish translators always saw in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters something more than a simple and light epistolary novel of the Regency era.

scholarly journals Delight or Disgust? The Afterlife of Anatomical Waxworks

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-376
Author(s):  
Marla Dobson ◽  
Emma Rosalind Peacocke
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Early History ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Teaching Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

How do we display the uncanny? During the Second World War the medical school of Queen’s University (Canada) commissioned artist Marjorie Winslow to make a series of wax teaching models to illustrate childbirth, in three dimensions, for the benefit of medical students. How have curators displayed these obstetric waxworks, which provoke strong feelings of disgust or of horrified empathy? Even in storage in the Museum of Healthcare at Kingston, the Winslow waxworks remain concealed behind a curtain, and when they are on display, they are now far more likely to be part of in an art exhibition than a medical history display. This paper uses the early history of obstetric waxworks and their display in eighteenth-century Italy to show how medical waxworks have always challenged the disciplinary divide between art and science. This historical context informs our understanding of the display history of the Winslow waxworks and of uncanny objects in general.

A Printed Primer of Kabbalistic Knowledge: Sha‘arei Orah in East-Central Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Avinoam J. Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
History Of

Abstract This article explores the printed editions of Joseph Gikatilla’s Sha‘arei Orah in the broader context of kabbalistic knowledge in early modern East-Central Europe. Following its first Italian editions, the book was reprinted several times. The Kraków 1600 edition with commentary by Matityah Delacrut presented Sha‘arei Orah as a kabbalistic lexicon and study aid. The Offenbach 1715 edition included additional notes that linked Sha‘arei Orah to the Safedian Kabbalah of Moses Cordovero and Isaac Luria. Finally, the several editions published in Żółkiew exemplify the diversification of Kabbalah in the contentious religious climate of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe. Each printing reflects a discrete historical context, yet Sha‘arei Orah was consistently seen as an introductory guide to Kabbalah. Threading together these unique moments reveals one trajectory of the history of Kabbalah, as printing brought esoteric texts to new generations of readers with new concerns and agendas.

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