Athens and Wittenberg

Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther's Legacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-20670-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 234, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy’s role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity.

Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kellerman, James A

Smith, R Alden

Springer, Carl P E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Classical Authors and Works

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation

James Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer

Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers

1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s Tischreden

R. Alden Smith

2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus

John G. Nordling

3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin Poetry

Carl P.E. Springer

4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans

Carl P.E. Springer

5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s Tischreden

R. Alden Smith

6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses

Richard J. Serina, Jr.

7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna

Piergiacomo Petrioli

Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy

8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music

E. Christian Kopff

9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium

Eric Phillips

10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Joseph Herl

11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music

Daniel Zager

12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1

E.J. Hutchinson

13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Jane Schatkin Hettrick

Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry

14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics

William P. Weaver

15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics

Jack D. Kilcrease

16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

Manfred Svensson

17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther

John G. Nordling

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

James R. Kellerman teaches at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Canada. His main interests are Pauline Epistles, Synoptic Gospels, Plato, and Patristics. His publications include Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with Carl P.E. Springer (2014), and Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with E.J. Hutchinson and Joshua J. Hayes (2017).

R. Alden Smith teaches at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His main interest is Latin poetry of the Augustan age. His book publications include Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (2017), co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (2018), co-authored with Lee Fratantuono, and a translation of The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicoletti (2020).

Carl P.E. Springer holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Tennessee. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation (2018), and Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns (2013).