Reading Certainty : : Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner / / edited by Ralph Keen, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Owings.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 237
• TeilnehmendeR: Keen, Ralph,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 237.; Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Reading Certainty offers incisive historical analysis of the foundational questions of the Christian tradition: how are we to read scripture, and how can we know we are saved? This collection of essays honors the work and thought Susan E. Schreiner by exploring the import of these questions across a wide range of time periods. With contributions from renowned scholars and from Schreiner’s students from her more than three decades of teaching, each of the contributions highlights the nexus of certainty, perception, authority, and exegesis that has defined her scholarly work. Intellectual historians, early modernists, and scholars of Christianity will all appreciate this testament to Schreiner’s influence. Contributors include: Vincent Evener, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Keen, Mark Lambert, Kevin J. Madigan, Richard A. Muller, Willemien Otten, Daniel Owings, Elizabeth Palmer, Karen Park, Barbara Pitkin, Ronald K. Rittgers, William Schweiker, Jonathan Strom, and Matthew Vanderpoel.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 An Exercise in “Thinking Nature”: Eriugena’s Periphyseon against the Background of the History of Exegesis and Patristic Reception / Willemien Otten -- Chapter 2 “Blessed Jerome”: The Protestants and the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century / Bruce Gordon -- Chapter 3 Waiting for the Miracle: Uncertainty, Superstition, and Trust in Jean Gerson / Matthew Vanderpoel -- Chapter 4 Early Modern Protestants and the “Hard Knots” of the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Study of Reformation Certainty / Ronald K. Rittgers -- Chapter 5 Melanchthon and the Utility of the Liberal Arts / Ralph Keen -- Chapter 6 Distinguishing Divine and Human Speech: Idolatry and the Words of Institution in the Eucharistic Debates / Daniel Owings -- Chapter 7 The Reformation of Doubt: Incredulity, Faith, the Body, and the Search for Certitude in Early Lutheran Interpretations of John 20:24–31 / Barbara Pitkin -- Chapter 8 A Clearness Uneasily Observed: Leprosy, Perception, and Certitude in Calvin’s A Harmony of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke / Mark M. Lambert -- Chapter 9 Not without Scripture: William Perkins, the Light of Nature, and Proofs of the Existence of God / Richard A. Muller -- Chapter 10 The Suffering and Death of Christ as Epistemological Framework in Reformation-Era Lutheran Teaching: Martin Luther, Veit Dietrich, and Cyriacus Spangenberg / Vincent Evener -- Chapter 11 Visions and Prophets in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany: The Case of Jacob Fabricius / Jonathan Strom -- Chapter 12 “Much More for Use in This Present Age”: Augustine Baker and Life-Writing at Cambrai Abbey, 1624–1633 / Karen E. Park -- Chapter 13 Evidence of Things Unseen: John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Conscience / William Schweiker -- Chapter 14 The Bible and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy: The Vatican and Polemical and Physical Violence / Kevin Madigan -- Afterword: Pages on Life’s Way / Elizabeth Palmer -- Index.