Covenanting in Sixteenth-century Scotland

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 336-348
Author(s):  
Jane E. A. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Reformed Worship

In 1638 the National Covenant deliberately looked backwards, as well as forwards, by incorporating the text of the Negative Confession (1581). Its authors utilised the patchwork of sixteenth-century covenant ideas by drawing upon religious bonding, confessions of faith and the coronation oath. Deeply familiar actions and gestures were used alongside the words, and especially the emotional ritual of taking a vow with hands upraised. This resonated with the broader identity and culture of protestants as a godly people, who, like the Old Testament Israelites, upheld their covenantal relationship with God by the ‘purity'of their reformed worship and discipline.

The Voice in the Schoolroom

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-129
Author(s):  
Jennifer Richards
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
School Education ◽  
Desiderius Erasmus ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
The Voice

This chapter explores the centrality of voice to a Latinate, grammar-school education in the sixteenth century. It focuses on the part of rhetoric that has long been missed out of our histories of Renaissance rhetoric and reading: pronuntiatio (delivery). It considers the types of textual evidence we might use to recover training in vocal modulation. It explores the importance of pairing elocutio with pronuntiatio, focusing especially on Omer Talon’s Rhetorica; and it considers how attention to the performance of sentences from collections might help us to ‘listen’ to the historical schoolroom. It asks what happened to women’s voices when they were impersonated in the male-only schoolroom, and whether ‘real’ women were ever trained in pronuntiatio. Finally, it considers why Desiderius Erasmus chose the voice of a woman, Folly, to defend the importance of delivery to establish a relationship with God.

scholarly journals Kerk, volk en owerheid in die 1858-grondwet van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
South African ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The South ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South ◽  
The Church

Church, people and government in the  1858 constitution of the South African Republic During the years 1855 to 1858 the South African Republic in the Transvaal created a new constitution. In this constitution a unique relation-ship between church, people and government was visible. This relationship was influenced by the Calvinist confessions of the sixteenth century, the theology of W ά Brakel and orthodox Calvinism, the federal concepts of the Old Testament and republican ideas of the Netherlands and Cape Patriots. It becomes clear that the history of the church in the Transvaal was directly influenced by the general history of the South African Republic.

Notes on the Reformation, Humanism, and the Study of Hebrew in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Theodore Bibliander (1505-64)

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagit Amirav ◽  
Hans-Martin Kirn
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
Universal Salvation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Theological School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Annotated Translation

AbstractTheodor Buchmann, better known as eodore Bibliander (1505-64), was Zwingli's immediate successor to the chair of Professor of Old Testament at the theological school in Zurich. An ardent orientalist, who was the first to edit a Latin translation of the Koran and a professed Hebraist, Bibliander could boast a well-articulated theology based on and around the knowledge of languages in general and of Hebrew in particular. In light of the contemporary prevalent notions of harmonia linguarum and concordia mundi, Bibliander sought to promote the study of Hebrew as an essential means to achieving a universal salvation. His treatise, De ratione omnium linguarum et literarum (Zurich, 1548), dedicated to the exposition of the said universalist theology, is the subject of this article. A full annotated translation of the De ratione communi is due to appear in the new series Corpus Reformatorum Minorum (Droz, Geneva).

Moses and the Magistrate: a Study in the rise of Protestant Legalism

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. L. Avis
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Civil Laws ◽  
The Church

‘It is now disputed at every table’, declared Whitgift in 1574, ‘whether the magistrate be of necessity bound to the judicials of Moses’. Edwin Sandys told Bullinger of Zürich in the previous year that it was being maintained, to the great trouble of the Church, that ‘The judicial laws of Moses are binding upon Christian princes, and they ought not in the slightest degree to depart from them’. Though often neglected by historians as an important factor in the Reformation, the question of the validity of the Old Testament judicial (as opposed to moral or ceremonial) law frequently arises in the writings of the Reformers, and their various answers made no slight impact on the course of events. It bears directly on Henry VIII's divorce and the bigamy of Philip of Hesse; the treatment of heresy and the possibility of toleration; the persecution of witches; usury and iconoclasm; Sabbatarianism and the rise of the ‘puritan’ view of the Bible as a book of precedents, and the corresponding shift to legalism in Protestant theology. The question is also of fundamental relevance to the thought of the Reformers on natural law, the godly prince and magistrate, and the so-called ‘third use of the law’. This article is an attempt to survey, up to the end of the sixteenth century, the various interpretations of the Mosaic penal and civil laws, with particular reference to the development of legalistic tendencies after Luther.

scholarly journals Die doodstraf: ’n teologiese standpunt

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan A Du Rand
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Biblical Texts

The recent process of structural transformation on all levels of society in South Africa urges theological reflection to participate. In this instance the crucial issue of capital punishment is at stake. After a brief survey of viewpoints and arguments concerning the issue, prominent and mostly debated Biblical texts are analysed. Genesis 9:6 and Exodus 21:24, for example are read within their cultural frameworks and theological contexts. The same is done with Matthew 5:21-22; 15:4; 26:52; John 7:53-8:11 and Romans 13:1-7. The conclusion is that Old Testament references to capital punishment are to be understood contextually. A final theological decision rests on the meaning of  the incarnation of Jesus Christ which put man in a new relationship with God but also to each other . That does not mean that punishment has to be is abolished as such, but any punishment has to be executed through the new God given ethos of love, demonstrated in the meaning of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. 

D'Aubigne's Les Tragiques: A Protestant Apocalypse

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
Richard Regosin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Working Out

Recent Studies on d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques have tended to bear out Henri Trénel's assertion in 1904 that the poet is “le plus biblique des écrivains français.” Since Trénel's catalogue of Scriptural references and Hebraisms in the poem (by which he sought to prove his point), d'Aubigné critics have given more thought to the significance of this accumulation of Biblical imagery, focusing particularly on d'Aubigné's continuing correlation of characters and events in Old Testament, early Christian, and contemporary sixteenth-century history. Henri Weber, whose view represents the most generally accepted interpretation, explains that this correlation provides the temporal dimension required by the epic poem. Moreover, by showing contemporary events to be a repetition of Biblical history, it raises those events to a symbolic level consistent with d'Aubigné's notion that the fortunes of the Protestants represent the working out of God's providential design for His modern-day chosen people. Henry Sauerwein suggests that the Biblical imagery represents d'Aubigné's attempt to approximate the style of the Bible in order to achieve a form suited to Les Tragiques as God's revelation of the destiny of the Protestant people to the divinely inspired poet.

scholarly journals Композитите като маркери за святост в „Похвална беседа за софийските мъченици“ от XVI в.

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 369-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марияна [Mariiana] Цибранска-Костова [TSibranska-Kostova]
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah ◽  
Made In

Composita as marks of holiness in the sixteenth‑century Eulogy for the Sofia MartyrsThe article presents preliminary observations concerning the excerpts from the Book of Jeremiah in the Archival Chronograph (fifteenth century) and Vilno Chronograph (sixteenth century). According to their content, localization and linguistic characteristics, they fall into two main groups. Some of the excerpts are identified as chapters from the Slavic Prophetologion and are connected with the translation made by Cyril and Methodius. Other chapters, which are not included in the Cyrillic and Glagolitic liturgical books, belong to the first, probably untranslated or now lost, part of the Book of Jeremiah. The excerpts that cannot be found in the Prophetologion also have archaic linguistic bases, connected to the translational techniques characteristic of the Cyrillo-Methodian translations, and differ considerably from the translation with commentaries that was made in Preslav. Whether these excerpts belong to an independent earlier translation, made by Methodius and his co-workers, or they are extracts from encyclopaedic miscellany, they provide valuable material for the study of this biblical book and of the Old Bulgarian translation of the Old Testament. Złożenia jako znaki świętości w szesnastowiecznej Eulogii męczenników SofiiArtykuł prezentuje wstępne obserwacje na temat fragmentów Księgi Jeremiasza, znajdujących się w zbiorach Archival Chronograph (XV wiek) i Vilno Chronograph (XVI wiek). Zgodnie z ich zawartością, miejscem powstania i cechami językowymi wchodzą one w skład dwóch głównych grup. Niektóre fragmenty są rozpoznane jako rozdziały słowiańskiego parimejnika i są związane z przekładem autorstwa śś. Cyryla i Metodego. Inne rozdziały, które nie weszły w skład cyrylickich i głagolickich ksiąg liturgicznych, należą do pierwszej, prawdopodobnie nieprzetłumaczonej lub zaginionej, części Księgi Jeremiasza. Fragmenty, które nie znajdują się w parimejniku także mają archaiczną podstawę językową, związaną z technikami translatorskimi, charakterystycznymi dla przekładów cyrylometodejskich i znacznie różnią się od przekładu z komentarzami, powstałego w Presławiu. Bez względu na to, czy fragmenty te są cześcią wcześniejszego, niezależnego tłumaczenia wykonanego przez Metodego i jego współpracowników, czy są fragmentami z encyklopedycznego miscellaneum, stanowią ważny punkt odniesienia do badania tej biblijnej księgi, a także starobułgarskiego przekładu Starego Testamentu.

Sixteenth-Century Origins

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Gary Neal Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Reformed Worship

This chapter examines the sixteenth-century origins of Presbyterianism. It looks first at the broader reforming impulse in medieval European Christianity, and in particular, the sixteenth-century Reformations. Turning to the Reformed movement of which Presbyterianism is a part, it argues that the Renaissance humanism was its driving impulse and shaped its ethos. It examines three specific features of the sixteenth-century Reformed movement with significant influence on Presbyterianism: the Reformed theological synthesis, often called Calvinism; the style and priorities of Reformed worship; and the distinctive Reformed polity that made pastors the teachers of the faith and placed lay elders or presbyters in charge of congregational discipline. The chapter concludes by describing the evolution of the Church of Scotland into recognizable Presbyterianism.

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