Reading Certainty

Reading Certainty

Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner

Palmer, Elizabeth; Keen, Ralph; Owings, Daniel

Brill

12/2022

322

Dura

Inglês

9789004186514

15 a 20 dias

686

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Preface


Notes on Contributors





Part 1: Forerunners


1 An Exercise in "Thinking Nature": Eriugena's Periphyseon against the Background of the History of Exegesis and Patristic Reception


?Willemien Otten





2 "Blessed Jerome": The Protestants and the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century


?Bruce Gordon





3 Waiting for the Miracle: Uncertainty, Superstition, and Trust in Jean Gerson


?Matthew Vanderpoel





Part 2: The Reformation


4 Early Modern Protestants and the "Hard Knots" of the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Study of Reformation Certainty


?Ronald K. Rittgers





5 Melanchthon and the Utility of the Liberal Arts


?Ralph Keen





6 Distinguishing Divine and Human Speech: Idolatry and the Words of Institution in the Eucharistic Debates


?Daniel Owings





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





8 A Clearness Uneasily Observed: Leprosy, Perception, and Certitude in Calvin's A Harmony of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke


?Mark M. Lambert





9 Not without Scripture: William Perkins, the Light of Nature, and Proofs of the Existence of God


?Richard A. Muller





10 The Suffering and Death of Christ as Epistemological Framework in Reformation-Era Lutheran Teaching: Martin Luther, Veit Dietrich, and Cyriacus Spangenberg


?Vincent Evener





Part 3: Into Modernity


11 Visions and Prophets in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany: The Case of Jacob Fabricius


?Jonathan Strom





12 "Much More for Use in This Present Age": Augustine Baker and Life-Writing at Cambrai Abbey, 1624-1633


?Karen E. Park





13 Evidence of Things Unseen: John Wesley's Heremeneutics of Conscience


?William Schweiker





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