Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians : : a reception of Greek patristic sources in the sixteenth century / / H. Ashley Hall.
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...
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Superior document: | Refo500 Academic Studies ; Volume 16 |
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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. |
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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