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...

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