Was there a Lutheran metaphysics? : : the interpretation of communicatio idiomatum in early modern Lutheranism / / Joar Haga.

• Superior document: Refo500 academic studies ; v. 2
• Author: Haga, Joar.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Hauptbeschreibung Joar Haga traces the Lutheran doctrine of communicatio idiomatum, the exchange of properties between the natures of Christ, as it developed in some important controversies of the 16th and the early 17th Century. Regarding it as the nerve of his soteriology, Luther stressed the intimacy of the two natures in Christ to such a degree that it threatened to end the peaceful relationship between theology and philosophy. At the same time as the Wittenberg reformers broke with certain strains of their philosophical heritage, they would insist that the continuation of Chris

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Choice of theme and structure; Some definitions and reflections on method; Luther's new interpretation; The role of Christology in Luther's understanding of salvation; The great Christological disputations 1539-1540; Summary : Luther's Christology; Melanchthon's diverging solution; Melanchthon's dismissal of communicatio idiomatum; Melanchthon's method; Melanchthon's interpretation of Colossians 3:1- 5; Melanchthon's notion of presence; Summary : Melanchthon's alternative

Communicatio idiomatum in Lutheran thought between the reformer and the Formula of ConcordIntroduction; Consolidation on the left: "Consensus Tigurinus" (1549); Lutheran critique of the "Consensus Tigurinus"; Christology and cosmology : The definition of presence by Brenz . .; Jacob Schegk: a philosophical evaluation of the Württemberg Christology; Summary; Martin Chemnitz and his voluntary ubiquity; The Formula of Concord - a hybrid construction?; Critique of the Formula: The Helmstedt theologians and Johannes Kepler; Summary of the chapter; The controversy between Giessen and Tübingen

IntroductionPrelude: A report from Saxony; Balthasar Mentzer and his view of the presence of Christ; The response from Tübingen; Summary; Was there a Lutheran metaphysics?; Literature; Index; Index rerum; Index personae; Back Cover