Overview: The publication of the works of the leading English reformers in 55 volumes by the Parker Society between 1841 and 1855 was undoubtedly one of the major enterprises of evangelical Christianity in the 19th Century. Yet perhaps the very size of the project militated against its popular usefulness, for the 7,000 supporters who annually subscibed one pound were given little guidance as t…
Overview: The subject matter of this dissertation is the role of Scripture in theological ethics. The issue is broached by way of James M. Gustafson, R. Paul Ramsey, and Allen D. Verhey, three representative ethicists on the recent American Protestant scene. The chapters on Gustafson, Ramsey, and Verhey reveal the crucial components of the question, namely, the role of reason, the character of …
Overview: This book examines the thinking of several Reformed theologians on theological issues that are, historically or by content, related to philosophy. Three Dutch autors from succesesive generations are considered in particular: Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676), Petrus van Mastricht (1630 - 1706), and Anthonius Driessen (1684 - 1748). A diversity of issues in Christian doctrine is discusse…
Overview: This book advances the challenging thesis that the Calvinism commonly accepted today is not an accurate representation of Calvin's thinking. This evaluation is presented through a detailed examination of the controversial doctrines of the seventeenth-century French theologian Moise Amyraut, whose Calvinim was chalenged in his lifetime by his own colleagues. The Reformed theologians of…
Overview: In this chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah, the author succeeds admirably in making the Prophet Isaiah's meaning and purpose clear. The scholarly and informative general introduction (70 pages) to the book of Isaiah alone is worth the purchase price. As Dr. Unger points out in his Introduction, the author's unusual knowledge of Hebrew makes his work especially …
Overview: This is a historical geography of the land of the Bible that brings together, for the benefit of both the scholar and the general reader, the vast mass of research and exploration that has been done on a country whose origins now fascinate an educated public as never before, the author, himself a scholar of great repute, has converted the details of his own research and that of his co…
Overview: Bringing the methods of contemporary social and intellectual history to bear on a vast range of archival sources, particularly records of city councils and the clergy, the author has fashioned a comprehensive history of the Reformation in the frontier city of Strasbourg. Most
Overview: Setiap orang memiliki "wawasan dunia", yaitu keyakinan-keyakinan fundamental yang mewarnai setiap aspek kehidupan kita: pemikiran, pekerjaan, waktu luang, nilai-nilai, sikap, dan tujuan hidup kita. Dalam membangun wawasan dunia Kristen, kita harus menyadari pengaruh-pengaruh lingkungan sekitar kita dan apa yang Alkitab katakan berkenaan dengan isu-isu dan tantangan-tantangan yang kita…
Overview: At the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism, an international conference on the spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism was held at the Theological University Apeldoorn in June 2013. While the contributors center on the Catechism's spirituality, they offer a broad range of scholarly perspectives on the Catechism. Its spirituality is famous for the first quest…
Overview: This volume contains the papers of the international RefoRC conference on Reformed Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe. The contributors discuss the question how the relation between doctrine and toleration was dealt with in territories with a Reformed majority. Did the refugee-experience of the Reformed make them tolerant or militant? How did official policy relate to ev…
Overview: Der Autor untersucht die Beziehungsgeschichte zwischen der Schweiz und Ungarn im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Ausgehend von der Frage, warum die ungarische Reformation sich in ihrer Mehrheit dem helvetischen Bekenntnis angeschlossen hatte, untersucht Bernhard das Quellenmaterial und die Forschungsliteratur erstmals lander-und sprachuber-greifend in umfassender Weise. Infolge der umfassend…
Overview: Der Autor untersucht den in Wittenberg gepflegten Umgang mit dem reformationsgeschichtlichen Erbe der Stadt unter den Bedingungen von funf verschiedenen politischen Systemen (1883 - 2012). Reichelt zeigt, wie Wittenberg als historischer Raum des Wissens, politischer Raum der Ideologie und sakraler Raum des Glaubens Erinnerung leiten, kanalisieren und kodieren konnte. Deutlich wird dab…
Overview: The author demonstrates how Augustine came to break with the patristic soteriology and anthropological theology and adopted the radicalism of grace with which he faced the theologians associated with the fifth-century Pelagianis. It was precisely that radicalism of grace that made of Augustine Luther's favourite theologian. The same radicalism was adopted by Luther in his opposition t…
Overview: This work offers a comprehensive examination of how Philip Melancthon (1497-1560) used Greek patristic sources throughtout this extensive career. It is organized around Melancthon's use of Cappadocian works against his opponents: Roman Catholic, the Radical Reformers, the Reformed, and in Intra-Lutheran controversies. The author places Melancthon within the context of the patristic re…
Overview: Karl Barth's argument continues to be representative of a generally accepted modern view that Calvinism and Lutheranism are completely separate, opposing movements and theologies. And yet, in many ways the movements built on the teaching of Luther and Calvin developed in relationship and resonance with one another. Despite this fact, very few scholars have explicitly considered the re…
Overview: This collection of essays examines important twentieth-century Lutheran theologians, including European and North American voices. Each essays provides an overview of the life and thought of important confenssional Lutherans who shaped theology with an ecumenical, world-wide impact. The focus here is on earlier twentieth-century figures. The essays composed over the last five years w…
Overview: On June 8 - 10, the first conference of RefoRC, the Reformation Research Consortium (www.reforc.com), was held at the Institute of Swiss Reformation Studies at the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich. The overall title "The Myth of the Reformation" encouraged critical perspectives on traditional beliefs about the sixteenth century Reformation(s). The editor provides a se…
Overview: Der autor blickt im Zusammenhang mit dem Lutherjubilaum 2017 zuruck auf die Lutherjubilaen der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte und stellt fest: Jede triumphalistische Vereinnahmung Luthers durch eine Richtung schloss in der Vergangenheit andere aus, die auch an Luthers erbe ein vitales Interesse hatten. Jede allzu popularisierende Luthervermarktung endete in der Asammlung von Anekdoten…
Overview: Twelve essays investigate Melanchthon's theological activities as teacher, confessor of the faith, and defender of his doctrine and ecclesiastical policies as they developed within the context of his service to society and church. In the past quarter century Melanchthon researchers have scrutinized older, most negative, interpretations of the Preceptor Germaniae. This volume presents …
Overview: Die Autorin stellt die Geschichte der Gattung theoloischer Schriften uber die Vorbereitung fur das Sterben durch das 16. Jahrhundret hindurch dar. Die vorreformatorischen Schriften zur Sterbekunst ("Ars moriendi") waren durch ihre Bilder und kurzen Texte bereits sehr verbreitet. Martin Luther fuhrte diese Gattung in seimen "Sermon von der Bereitung zum Sterben" (1519) fort. Er verwend…
Overview: Daniel Kalaj was a Polish Reformer of Hungarian background, born in Little Poland and trained in Franeker, Friesland, under some of the most brilliant Reformed theologians of seventeenth-century Europe. The author shows that Kalaj, in contrast to many Reformed thinkers of his day, was capable of communicating Reformed doctrine in a friendly and peaceful manner. Kalaj places special …
Overview: The author takes his point of departure in the doctrine of the covenant as it appears in the theology of the prominent second-generation reformer, Wolfgang Musculus (1497 - 1563). Musculus is perhaps the earliest reformed theologian to give the topic of the covenant a separate and distinct treatment in a collection of theological commonplaces. The author then traces developments in …
Overview: The author traces the Lutheran doctrine of communicatio idiomatum, the exchange of properties between the natures of Christ, as it developed in 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.…
Overview: It has often been noted that the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century witnessed a revived interest in the scriptural notions of prophets and prophecy. Drawing from both late medieval apocalyptic expectations of the immanent end of the world and from a humanist revival of biblical studies, the prophet appeared many as a suitable role model for the Protestant preacher. …
Overview: The free offer of the gospel has been a matter of significant debate within Reformed Theology. However, despite this controversy, Reformed theologians such as James Durham preached a gospel offer which was a sincere and free invitation from God to all, to embrace Jesus Christ as Saviour. This gospel offer expressed God's grac and goodness to all. The author argues that Durham's doct…
Overview: A growing body of historical literature reflects the importance of John Owen. The author seeks to reassess Owen's theology in light of the way in which he connected his trinitarian piety to his views of public worship. He argues that his teaching on communion with God as triune was the foundation of his views of public worship and that he regarded public worship as the highest expre…
Overview: The author examines British participation in the Dutch religious and political disputes of the early 17th century (the Bestandstwisten) its significant impact on both countries. Although the disputes began over predestination, they quickly took on political overtones as the two sides, the Remonstrants (Arminians) and Contra-Remonstrants, vehemently debated propower church-state relati…
Overview: The thirteen essays in this volume were all originally presented at international conferences or in public lectures. They address three main areas of inquiry, all of which, in one way or another, are of key importance in early modern historical discourse and theological thinking: (1) the theological diversity and debates within the reformed tradition in the sixteenth century and beyo…
Overview: Personal renewal or sanctification belongs to the heart of the Christian life and is becoming more important in our present-day culture. Listening to Scripture and in conversation with a variety of theologians from the protestant tradition, the author presents an up-to-date concept for a theology of personal renewal. In this concept the spiritual union with Christ considers the way i…
Overview: The author's work remains the only monograph-length study that offers a new, comprehensive perspective on Calvin's ecclesiological ideal in terms of the church's relationship to the government. Different from what many have argued, this ideal did not lie in a vision of the church as completely independent of the government or that had its own power of excommunication. Instead, Calvin …
Overview: The author explores the relationship between morality and God's free choices in the thought of Francis Turretin (1623 - 1687). Turretin introduces a threefold scheme of right into Thomas Aquinas's natural law theory in order to explain how change within the law is possible. This volume is the first book-length treatment of Turretin's natural law theory, and it provides an important th…
Overview: Das Calvin-Jahr 2009 gehorte zu den wichtigsten Ereignissen im Vorfeld des groben Reformationsjubilaums: Eindrucklich wies es darauf hin, was die Reformation alles ist: international, okumenisch, facettenreich - und mehr als nur ein Martin Luther mit Umfeld. In den Beitragen dieses Bandes steht das Moment der Auseinandersetzung des Luthertums mit dem entstenhenden Calvinismus im Vorde…
Overview: Filing the historiographical gap, the author raises a fundamental question concerning the criticism of the Reformed doctrine of free choice in relationship of divine necessity as determinism. Unlike the deterministic interpretation of traditional Reformed thought on free choice, the substantive and careful study of John Edward's writings on free choice in the intellectual context of t…
Overview: Historical investigation of union with Christ and justification have been dominated by the figure of John Calvin. Calvin's influence, however, has been exaggerated in our own day when many other theologians within the Early Modern Reformed Tradition contributed to the developments of these doctrines. J.V. Fesko, therefore, goes beyond Calvin and explores union with Christ and justif…
Overview: Der Autor untersucht die Abendmahlslehre von Johannes Calvin aus romisch-katholischer Perspektive. Im Zentrum des Interesses steht die Frage nach der wahren Gegenwart Jesu Christi unter Brot und Wein. Zunachst interpretiert der Autor Calvins Position hinsichtlich dieser Frage im Kontext der innerreformatorischen Kontroverse um das Abendmahl. Bei kritischer Betrachtung wird deutlich, …