Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Silvianne Aspray
Keyword(s):  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology

This conclusion considers the hermeneutical implications of the finding that Vermigli’s work is metaphysically complex with a view to what it means for understanding the Reformation more broadly. It argues that the metaphysical complexity underlying Reformation theology helps to make sense of radically diverging contemporary readings of reformers like Luther and Calvin. It moreover contends that if the Reformation was not characterised by a univocal metaphysics only, it becomes problematic to hold a line of argument which makes of the Reformation a motor of modernity, while predicating modernity on univocal structures of being. Finally, it argues that it is historically and philosophically significant that Vermigli’s work, and Reformation theology more broadly, sustains an unresolved tension by oscillating between a participatory and a univocal metaphysical model.

Lollard Themes in the Reformation Theology of William Tyndale.

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Bryn Morris ◽  
Donald Dean Smeeton
Keyword(s):  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology

Melancthon's “Synergism.”

1889 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Frank Hugh Foster
Keyword(s):  
Large Degree ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Great Mind ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The problems of anthropology depend for their solution in an unusually large degree upon psychology. While the evangelical church looks to the Bible for the materials of its theology, it still depends upon the use of human reason in the interpretation and adjustment of the materials there presented. Especially is this true in the matter of conversion and related doctrines. The language of the Bible is general, rhetorical, theological, practical, or popular, as you may choose to call it, but not strict, philosophical, theoretical, or scientific. The ultimate facts of the doctrine may be perfectly clear to the biblical student, but the adjustment of those facts in a dogmatic system will depend largely upon his ability as a thinker to see in the facts what the biblical writers have not thought fit to utter in express terms, and this upon his mental equipment for his task, or, in other words, upon his knowledge of the constitution and operations of the human mind, within which the process of conversion goes on. The history of Melancthon's “synergism” brings this peculiarity of the subject before us in a very interesting way, for clearer ideas as to the nature of the soul went, in his case, hand in hand with the alterations of the theological system; and thus his efforts to arrive at a statement of the process of conversion which should be at once true to the Scriptures and to the consciousness and the moral necessities of man, are not only interesting as the mental history of a great mind, but throw light upon the interrelations of anthropology and psychology, give us many suggestions as to the interpretation to be put upon the Reformation theology at the present day, and may serve to reveal the lines upon which all progress in respect to these questions is to be sought.

scholarly journals Sixteenth-Century Philosophy and Theology after John Mair

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Giovanni Gellera
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
University Reform ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
The Status

This chapter investigates the concept and theological use of philosophy in Scotland after John Mair. Until the 1570s, philosophy in Scotland was in the tradition of scholasticism. After the Reformation, Melville’s university reform changed the philosophical landscape. Across Europe, the first generation of the Reformers had taught that scholasticism and Aristotle were not necessary for the Christian faith, and philosophers and theologians alike had to rethink the traditional scholasticism of Catholic legacy. This intellectual change is traced here with a focus on the role, scope, and autonomy of philosophy with respect to theology. After the dismissal of Aristotelo-scholasticism, both scholasticism and Aristotelianism survived in the universities in new forms adapted to Reformation theology. Aristotle in particular, regarded as the personification of unassisted natural reason, retained his importance. The status of Aristotle is a good indicator of the prevailing concept of philosophy.

The Marian Dimension

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Christman
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology

Chapter Ten investigates the influence of these events on the Reformation dispute over the proper understanding of the Virgin Mary within Christianity. Vos and van den Esschen were executed on the eve of the festival of Mary’s Visitation and it did not take long for the rumour to spread that at the last moment, they recanted, a turn of heart attributed to Mary’s miraculous intervention and a demonstration of her agency as a saint. Aware of the dangers posed by an overly aggressive critique of Marian piety, supporters of Reformation theology responded in gentle and subtle ways. This chapter offers an example of how these events became embedded in a broader Reformation debate about sainthood and the role of Mary within Christianity.

Arminius and the Reformation

1961 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Bangs
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Familiar Word ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Anglican Theology

James Arminius (1560-1609) is not nearly as well-known as the various movements which bear his name. “Arminianism” is a familiar word in Protestant history and theology and a pervasive movement particularly in English-speaking Protestantism. The Arminian movements, however, because of their diversity do not point clearly to Arminius himself. The label of Arminianism has been applied to and often accepted by such diverse entities as the politics of William Laud, seventeenth century Anglican theology from high churchmanship to moderate Puritanism, the communal experiment at Little Gidding, the empiricism of John Locke, Latitudinarianism, the rational supernaturalism of Hugo Grotius and the early Remonstrants, early Unitarianism in England, Wales, and New England, the evangelicalism of the Wesleys, and the revivalism of the American frontier. In our time the term means for some the crowning of Reformation theology; for others it points merely to an anachronistic sub-species of fundamentalism; and for still others it means an easy-going American culture-Protestantism.

The Impact of the Executions in the German-Speaking Lands of the Holy Roman Empire

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Christman
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Southern Germany ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
University City ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

This chapter argues that the executions of Vos and van den Esschen impacted the German-speaking lands more broadly. The first half addresses the dissemination of news of the burnings via published eyewitness accounts, as well as evidence from personal letters, revealing networks of correspondence that paralleled print as a means of diffusion. The second half of the chapter is devoted to a case study of Ingolstadt, a university city in southern Germany where booksellers and intellectuals employed the executions to demonstrate the corruption of the church. At the same time, opponents of Luther’s reform utilized them to condemn aspects of Reformation theology. The case reveals how news of the burnings worked its way into the fabric of the Reformation debates there.

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