Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God : : Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy / / Kirk Essary.

What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the &...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Erasmus Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations and Early Modern Editions
  • Preface
  • 1. Calvin's Erasmus, Theologia Rhetorica , and Pauline Folly
  • 2. Foolishness as Religious Knowledge
  • 3. Hidden Wisdom and the Revelation of the Spirit
  • 4. Milk for Babes: A Pauline Eloquence
  • 5. Blaming Philosophy, Praising Folly
  • 6. The Affective Christian Philosophy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index