Reading Certainty

Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-18651-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 237, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This volume offers the first critical edition and English translation of the Book of Physics of Barhebraeus' (d. 1286) magnum opus, Butyrum Sapientiae. Barhebraeus' text is not simply a Syriac translation of Aristotle or Avicenna; it offers some unexpected and un-Aristotelian views on time, motion, and inclination, thus adding various personal twists and turns to the work. For his Book of Physics Barhebraeus drew mainly on Arabic texts by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, among them the as yet unedited al-Mulakhkhas, and maybe in some instances the lost al-Jawhar. There are also some remarkable similarities with the late Neo-Platonic philosopher Damascius (6th ct.), especially in Barhebraeus' treatment of time and motion, and also with Lucretius. Thus, the present volume argues, the Book of Physics was based on a variety of sources, which were re-arranged in a unique and very personal manner by Barhebraeus.

Zielgruppe

This edition will be of interest for scholars of Syriac, classics, philosophy, and Late Neo-Platonism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keen, Ralph

Palmer, Elizabeth

Owings, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph Keen, Ph.D. (1990, University of Chicago) is Dean of the Honors College and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as the president of the American Society of Church History and is the author of Exile and Restoration in Jewish Thought (Continuum, 2009)

Daniel Owings is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is entitled Idols, Ideals, and Ideology: The Critique of False Religion in the Sixteenth Century. He was previously editor of Sightings.

Elizabeth Palmer, Ph.D. (2007, University of Chicago) is Senior Editor at The Christian Century, and is the author of Faith in a Hidden God: Luther, Kierkegaard, and the Binding of Isaac (Fortress, 2017). She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.