Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians : : a reception of Greek patristic sources in the sixteenth century / / H. Ashley Hall.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Hall, H. Ashley,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, Connecticut : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English; German
• Series: Refo500 academic studies ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) -- a great philologist, pedagogue, and theologian of the Reformation -- used Greek patristic sources throughout his extensive career. The Cappadocian Fathers (here identified as Gregory Thaumaturgus, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa) were received through the medieval period to be exemplary theologians. In the hands of Melanchthon, they become tools to articulate the Evangelical-Lutheran theological position on justification by grace through faith alone, the necessity of formal educatio

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements and Dedication; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; The Cappadocian Fathers Identified; The Serpent and the Cross; Chapter 1: Melanchthon's Understanding of Patristic Authority; 1. Introduction; 2. The Patristic Revival of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 2.1 On Humanism and Scholasticism; 2.1.1 Christian Humanist and the Reformation; 3. Melanchthon: "Between" Humanism and Reform?; 3.1 Melanchthon and Erasmus; 3.2 Melanchthon and Luther; 4. Melanchthon and Patristic Authority; 5. Melanchthon's Method for Reading Patristic Sources

5.1 Melanchthon and History5.2 Melanchthon's Understanding of Tradition; 5.3 The Necessary Distinction between the Law and the Gospel; 5.4 The Interplay between Gospel, Scripture, and Tradition; 6. Toward Greater Clarity Concerning Key Phrases and Concepts; 6.1 Consensus Antiquitatis; 6.2 Scriptores puriores; 6.3 Chain of Teachers; 6.4 The Church as a School; 6.5 A Theological Grammar; 7. Why the Cappadocians?; Chapter 2: Melanchthon and Greek Patristic Sources; 1. Introduction; 2. Greek Patristic Sources in Italy: Byzantine Editors and Translators; 2.1 The Aldine Press

3. Christian Humanism in German Universities3.1 University of Heidelberg; 3.2 University of Tübingen; 3.3 University of Wittenberg; 3.3.1 Greek and Rhetoric at Wittenberg; 4. Melanchthon's Education and Early Career; 4.1 Early Education; 4.2 Melanchthon's University Education; 4.3 Professor of Greek and Rhetoric and Student of Theology; 5. Melanchthon's Patristic Lectures and Knowledge of Cappadocian Material; 6. Melanchthon's Evaluation of Basil and Gregory Nazianzen; 6.1 De Ecclesia et De Autoritate Verbi Dei, 1539; 6.1.1 Criticisms of the Cappadocians; 6.2 De Basilio Episcopo, 1545

6.3 Postilla, On Basil, 1555/15496.4 De Gregorio Nazianzeno, 1558; 6.5 Images of Melanchthon Associated with the Basil and Nazianzen; 6.5.1 Melanchthon and Basil; Cranach the Younger, 1559; 6.5.2 Melanchthon and Gregory Nazianzen; Cranach Workshop, 1560; 7. Conclusion; Chapter 3: Use of the Cappadocians Against the Radical Reformers; 1. Introduction; 2. The Radical Reformers; 2.1 The Zwickau Prophets; 3. Theological Criticisms of Radicalism; 3.1 On the Merit of Theological Studies: The Unity of Church and Academy; 3.2 A Defense of Philosophy and the Natural Science

3.3 Cappadocians as Exemplary Learned Theologians4. Melanchthon against the Anti-Trinitarians; 4.1 Defense of "Logos" as "Word"; 4.1.1 Biblical Testimony; 4.1.2 The Patristic Testimony; 5. Cappadocian References to Christological and Trinitarian Doctrines in Didactic Works; 5.1 Augmented Sections in Subsequent Editions of the Loci Communes; 5.1.1 The Loci Communes, 1535; 5.1.2 The Loci Communes, 1543; 5.1.3 Heubtartikel Christlicher Lere, 1553; 6. Defense of Christological and Trinitarian Formulations in Other Works; 6.1 On the Divinity of the Holy Spirit Proven through Baptism

6.2 The Holy Spirit at Creation