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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2024)
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Private Aspects of Public Decisions of the Walloon Consistories in the United Provinces of the Netherlands Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Michaël Green
The dimension of privacy in the context of early modernity has become an important element of study of daily life at the time. The Livre Synodal contains information regarding the affairs of the Fr...
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The Sandomierz Agreement as a Model for Eclectic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Poland Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jarosław Płuciennik, Marcin Hintz
The Sandomierz Agreement, formed by Lutherans, Reformed, and Czech Brethren in the Polish Republic on April 14, 1570, stands out in European history for its efforts to consolidate Protestant groups...
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Fighting Feasting Fools: Nicolas de Clamanges and the Reform of Saints’ Feast Days Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christopher M. Bellitto
The French humanist and reformer Nicolas de Clamanges (ca. 1363/64-1437) wrote a blistering treatise against new feasts, De nouis festiuitatibus, which contrasts with his related sermon praising th...
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The Semantics of Religious Borders in Early Modern Confessions Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ulrich L. Lehner
In order to provide a nuanced understanding of early modern religious history, the metaphors of ‘border’ and ‘layer’ have proved particularly useful. This article proposes utilizing Nicolai Hartman...
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 25, No. 2-3, 2023)
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 25, No. 2-3, 2023)
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A Liturgy of Lament for a Broken House-Church: The Pious Meditations (1619) of Johann Christoph Oelhafen Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Ronald K. Rittgers
This article explores the evolving nature of affectivity in the long Reformation, focusing especially on the place of lament in the ‘emotion script’ of early modern Lutheranism. It examines this sc...
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The Bohemian Confession of 1575: Towards an Archaeology of the Czech Reformation Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Phillip Haberkern
In 1575, the evangelical estates of the Czech lands presented their king, Maxilimian II, with an irenic confession of faith. This document was the product of cooperation among the Czech Utraquists,...
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Valla’s False Modesty: The Annotationes Novi Testamenti Compared with the Biblical Scholarship of Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) and Aurelio Lippi Brandolini (1454?–1497) Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Annet den Haan
The Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457) wrote his Annotationes Novi Testamenti in Rome and Naples in the 1440s and 1450s. According to Valla’s own writings, the aim of this work was to clean...
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Exalting Christ and God’s Sovereign Grace: Augustinianism and Anti-Arminianism in Samuel Rutherford’s Covenant of Works Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jaekook Lee
This article examines how Samuel Rutherford, a leading Reformed theologian in seventeenth-century Scotland, discussed Adam’s obedience and merit within the doctrine of the covenant of works and und...
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The Nonconformist Clergy and the London Plague of 1665 Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Anne Dunan-Page
The Nonconformist ministers ejected from London parish churches in 1662 gained a reputation three years later, during the plague, for being heroes, whereas the Church of England clergy were accused...
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The Transformations of ‘Renaissance Aristotelianisms’: The Case of Johannes Eck’s Commentary on the Corpus Aristotelicum Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Giovanni Tortoriello
Interdisciplinary research into the history of philosophy and theology has shown that ‘Renaissance Aristotelianism’ is a complex, variegated, and contradictory phenomenon. One should rather speak o...
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2023)
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The Italian Reform Reconsidered: A Look at Italophone Studies for the Estensi Domains Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Richard M. Tristano
ABSTRACT This study has four goals. To study the Italian Reform from the 1530s to the 1560s on a regional and local level, limited to the Estensi domains, using a comparative method, and evaluating its three main cities: Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio whose experiences were very different. Reggio was largely traditional and less affected by the Reform. Ferrara was the site of intense political rivalry
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Refuting Luther by Scripture Alone: Sebastian Felbaum and Catholic Propaganda in Early Reformation Germany Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-04-26 David Bagchi
ABSTRACT Studies of the Catholic side of the German pamphlet war (c. 1520–1525) tend to focus on the most prolific opponents of Luther, such as Johann Eck and Johannes Cochlaeus. It can however be argued that this approach skews our picture of the Catholic effort, because most conservative pamphlet warriors wrote only one item apiece. This investigation of a singleton from 1524, by the otherwise unknown
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Martin Luther and Contemplation Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Samuel J. Dubbelman, Erin Risch Zoutendam
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the vexed topic of Martin Luther's relationship to late medieval mysticism through a terminological approach focused on Luther's use of the word contemplation. The contribution that this article offers arises from the often repeated observation that what is called mysticism today was called contemplation in the Middle Ages. To that end, this article seeks a clearer view
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2022)
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The Death of the Soul: Christ’s Descent into Hell in the Thought of Calvin, Lefèvre, and Cusa Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Preston Hill
ABSTRACT A lacuna in scholarship currently exists on the place of Christ’s descent into hell in the theology of John Calvin. The impression given by this lacuna is that Calvin had little to say about the descensus. However, the reformer devoted more energy explaining the descensus than any other clause of the Apostles’ Creed, an explanation already developed in his first treatise the Psychopannychia
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‘Nicholas of Cusa’s Use of Bonaventure in His Sermons’ Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-02-01 William P. Hyland
ABSTRACT The influence of Franciscan thought, including the thirteenth century theologian Bonaventure, on Cusanus, continues to be a rich vein of exploration among scholars, both in the realm of philosophy and speculative theology. This paper will attempt to explore for the first time the varied use of Bonaventure in the large body of sermons by Cusanus. It will seek to demonstrate the multivalent
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Up to Five Books of God: The Metaphorical and Theological Background of Herborn Encyclopaedism Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Petr Pavlas
ABSTRACT Early modern encyclopaedism is generally known as a pedagogical endeavour striving to achieve not only universal access to scientific information and universal education, but also universal science and knowledge. Its intellectual-historical genealogy and historical-theological background, however, deserve much more scholarly attention than they have received hitherto. This paper illuminates
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Gisbertus Voetius on Meditation and Learned Ignorance: Mysticism, The Devotio Moderna and the Nadere Reformatie Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Matthew C. Baines
ABSTRACT Gisbertus Voetius, intellectual head of the Nadere Reformatie, commends an eclectic range of medieval and mystical thinkers with links to the Devotio moderna including Thomas Aquinas, Denys the Carthusian and Nicholas of Cusa. Voetius draws appreciatively but critically on Aquinas and Denys in his exploration of meditation or contemplation. Voetius is also influenced by Cusa’s doctrine of
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Simon J. G. Burton
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)
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Luther in Printed Marginalia: Reference Notes, Reading and Representations in Swedish Lutheran Prints 1570–1630 Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Kajsa Weber
ABSTRACT This article investigates reference notes to Luther’s works in Swedish books produced from 1570–1630 and uses this case study to explore the presence and function of reference notes to Luther’s works in Lutheran print during the age of confessionalisation. Building on scholarly work on representations of Luther within Lutheran Culture, early modern reading and printed marginalia, it explores
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Going to Church in Medieval England Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Paul Ayris
Published in Reformation & Renaissance Review (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2022)
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‘Let Your Servant Depart in Peace’: Seventeenth-Century Eucharistic Preparation as Ars Moriendi Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Will Tarnasky
ABSTRACT There was a ubiquitous association between death and the Eucharist in the early modern English Protestant imagination, as revealed in the remarkably understudied body of English pre-Communion handbooks. These books, published by both men and women, across confessional boundaries, led readers through highly methodical meditations to prepare them to worthily receive the Sacrament of Communion
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Simon J. G. Burton
(2022). Editorial. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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History and Heresy in the Lutheran Reformation Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Charlotte Methuen
ABSTRACT This article explores Lutheran categorisations of heresy by considering definitions of heresy and depictions of heretics. It begins with a discussion of the historiography of the writing of Reformation history, and a survey of the historiography of heresy in the Early Church and in the medieval period. References in Luther’s writings to ‘heresy’ and ‘heretics’ show how Luther responded to
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Reading and Numerology in the Early French Reform Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Richard J. Oosterhoff
ABSTRACT French humanists and reformers around 1500 drew upon ancient and twelfth-century practices of reading numerologically, in an effort to recover a rich mode of doing philosophy rooted in Christian scriptures. This article is chiefly exploratory, setting out this programme’s sources, practices, and aims within the circle of Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, comparing to the influential projects of the
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Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity: Essays in honour of Diarmaid MacCulloch Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Paul Ayris FRHistS
(2022). Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity: Essays in honour of Diarmaid MacCulloch. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 78-79.
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Metaphysics in the Reformation: The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jonathan N. Cleland
(2022). Metaphysics in the Reformation: The Case of Peter Martyr Vermigli. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 76-77.
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Anthony Tuckney (1599-1670): Theologian of the Westminster Assembly Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Sergiej Slavinski
(2022). Anthony Tuckney (1599-1670): Theologian of the Westminster Assembly. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 74-76.
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Zürcher Liedflugschriften. Katalog der bis 1650 erschienenen Drucke in der Zentralbibliothek Zürich Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Amy Nelson Burnett
(2022). Zürcher Liedflugschriften. Katalog der bis 1650 erschienenen Drucke in der Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 73-74.
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Philip Melanchthon's Humanist Politics: Greek Scholarship in a Time of Confessional Crisis Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-11-27 Alexander Batson
ABSTRACT This article examines how Philip Melanchthon utilized classical Greek texts in the confessional conflicts of the Reformation. In 1521, Melanchthon published a Greek edition of Aristophanes’ Clouds as a critique of sophistry, and in 1527 he produced a Latin translation of Demosthenes’ speeches Against Aristogeiton as a rebuke of Johann Agricola's antinomianism. In the 1540s, when the Reformation
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Simon J. G. Burton
(2021). Editorial. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 115-116.
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A Letter of Guy de Brès to the Consistory of Capernaum (Antwerp) Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Byunghoon Kang
ABSTRACT A letter from Guy de Brès to the Consistory of Antwerp in 1565 sheds light on a project promoted by the Prince of Orange to forge a union between the Calvinists and Lutherans in the Netherlands in the early 1560s. Fundamental to this project was the Wittenberg Concord of 1536. De Brès concluded that he could sign the Concord if read in the light of Martin Bucer’s comments. On this basis, he
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The Hymnal (1543) of Andreas Moldner: Spiritual Openness and Ethical Emphasis in the Urban Reformation of Kronstadt (Transylvania) Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Ulrich A. Wien
ABSTRACT A Hymnal of Eight Songs from Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen/Transylvania (Braşov/Romania) has long not enjoyed the reputation it deserves. Only one copy is extant, only coming to light 1883. Along with the Reformatio Ecclesiae Coronensis and the Constitutio Scholae Coronensis, this early hymnal belongs to the three ‘programmatic texts' of the humanist municipal Reformation (Germ. Stadtreformation)
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Metrical Psalm-Singing and Emotion in Scottish Protestant Affective Piety, 1560–1650 Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Nathan C. J. Hood
ABSTRACT Psalm-singing was an emotional experience for early modern Scottish Protestants. This article explores the affective dimension of this practice. It identifies the experiences Scots had when they sang the metrical psalms, investigates why psalm-singing stimulated these emotional episodes, and situates the activity's role within the broader framework of Scottish Protestant introspective piety
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St Stephen’s College Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Paul Ayris
(2021). St Stephen’s College Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 187-189.
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The Christian Platonism of Thomas Jackson Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Matthew C. Baines
(2021). The Christian Platonism of Thomas Jackson. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 191-193.
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Simon J. G. Burton
(2021). Editorial. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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Representing England in Rome: Sermons from the Early Modern English College to Popes and Cardinals Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Lucy Underwood
ABSTRACT This article explores how preaching at the English College in Rome, c.1580–1603, can illuminate questions of national identity, Anglo-Italian exchanges, inter-confessional conflict and the symbiotic relationship of religious and national identities for English Catholics. It investigates in detail texts from a hitherto little-studied manuscript at the English College, Rome, whose large collection
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The Reformation in Private Towns in the Polish Crown in the 16th Century Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Jacek Wijaczka
ABSTRACT The article summarises the state of research concerning the Reformation in private towns in the Polish Crown (Kingdom). The main question considered is whether the noble town owners forced the inhabitants to accept the confession they themselves professed. The geographical scope of the article covers two provinces of the Crown: Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and Lesser Poland (Małopolska),
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‘The Devil Went Down to Oksa': Demonic Visitation and Calvinist Piety in Mid-Seventeenth Century Poland Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Kazimierz Bem
ABSTRACT This article discusses a 1649 incident involving an alleged haunting of Oksa – a small, private Calvinist town near Cracow, Poland. This event is recounted in a contemporary primary source, until now almost completely overlooked by historians of Polish Reformation. The alleged demonic visitation shines a light on Polish Calvinist piety and the strength of the Reformed ministry during a time
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Solus Verus Deus: Francis Cheynell and the Johannine Trinity Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Sergiej S. Slavinski
ABSTRACT Scholars have identified the crucial importance of Johannine theology in the early modern anti-Trinitarian and Trinitarian debates. This article investigates Francis Cheynell’s defence of a Trinitarian reading of John 17:3, a highly controversial text in these debates. Modern scholarship has left implicit the significance of John 17:3. Consequently, this article argues that, from Cheynell’s
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The Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte: Content Analysis and Publication Characteristics Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Glenn R. Wittig
ABSTRACT The Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a leading journal in the area of Reformation history with a long publication history. Content analysis, as a means toward understanding publication patterns, has been frequently used to study hard and soft science periodicals but seldom used to examine religion-oriented journals. This study was designed to describe a number of publication characteristics
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Simon J. G. Burton
(2020). Editorial. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 177-179.
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The English Reformation: A Very Brief History Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Paul Ayris
(2020). The English Reformation: A Very Brief History. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 253-254.
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The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage. Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Arjen Terlouw
(2020). The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage. Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 254-256.
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Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reform Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Harry Spillane
(2020). Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reform. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 256-257.
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Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate: The Elohistae Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Philipp Reisner
(2020). Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate: The Elohistae. Reformation & Renaissance Review: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 258-259.
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‘Accuser of Brothers’: A Polish Anti-Demonological Tract and its Self-Defeating Rhetoric Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Michael Ostling
ABSTRACT Polish historiography has celebrated the Czarownica powołana [The Denounced Witch] without studying it very closely, treating its author as a heroic, skeptical, enlightened voice crying out against the witch-trials of Poland-Lithuania. But the anonymous author was probably a Jesuit priest, and indubitably was a fervent proponent for Counter-Reformation. Although the author does condemn the
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Pulpit Polemics and ‘Damnable Doctrine’ in Early Modern Scotland Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Russell Newton
ABSTRACT The First Book of Discipline (1560) established the confutation of erroneous doctrine as an integral aspect of Scottish ministers’ responsibilities in the pulpit. This article explores this key facet of early modern Scottish preaching. It begins by sketching out the main contours of polemical preaching, examining how Reformed Scots addressed theological ideas with which they disagreed (especially
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A Portrait of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt by Lucas Cranach the Elder Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Alejandro Zorzin
ABSTRACT The traditional facial portrait of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt has significantly influenced his reception. His apparently sole authentic image was not known until 1988. It is a small woodcut on a broadsheet printed in commemoration of his death in Basel (1541). Previously, the notion was widespread that he was of a swarthy, (almost) negroid (nigricans) appearance. However, there is a
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James Dundas on John Cameron and Thomas Hobbes: Psychological Determinism and Compatibilism Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Giovanni Gellera
ABSTRACT The Idea philosophiae moralis (1679) by James Dundas (c.1620–1679) is an unfinished manuscript in the tradition of Reformed scholasticism. There Dundas answers the challenge posed by Thomas Hobbes’s professed proximity with Protestant theology on the issues of psychological determinism and the compatibilism of freedom and necessity in human agency. Dundas endorses the theology of conversion
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Reformed and Lutheran Responses to Richard Baxter: Theological Heterodoxy and the Synod of Dort Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Jan van de Kamp
The English Reformed theologian Richard Baxter stated that he held a ‘middle way’ in the debate on soteriology within the Reformed persuasion, for which he drew on, among others, ‘all the Divines o...
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Editorial Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Simon J. G. Burton
The articles in this issue speak to a wide variety of themes in Reformation and early modern history and theology. Three of the articles offer new perspectives on Luther, Melanchthon and the German Reformation. They draw on both well-known and little-known texts and traverse territory from ecclesiology to soteriology to educational reform. The other two are reception studies examining the way in which
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Irreparable Breach or Late-Medieval Reform? Luther’s Address to the Christian Nobility and the Conciliar Reform Tradition Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Richard J. Serina
ABSTRACT Martin Luther’s 1520 reform treatise, Address to the Christian Nobility, notably pleaded to secular authorities to help reform the German territorial churches of the Empire. Treatments of the Address, however, have neither explained adequately the source of Luther’s proposals nor taken into account recent scholarship on late-medieval conciliar reform and its aspirations to undertake wide-ranging
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Why was Luther Hostile to Article 5 on Justification Agreed at the Religious Colloquy of Regensburg, 1541? Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Anthony N. S. Lane
ABSTRACT Martin Luther was negative towards Article 5 of the Regensburg Colloquy (1541), calling it an inconsistent patchwork. Yet a detailed comparison of the article with Luther’s own works shows that almost all that the article states can be supported by material from Luther himself. Why then was his attitude so negative? Luther mistakenly interpreted the statement that justifying faith is efficacious
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John Napier’s Influence on Seventeenth-Century Apocalyptic Thinking in England Reformation & Renaissance Review Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Alexander Corrigan
ABSTRACT This article considers the influence on English thinkers of a commentary (1593/4) on the Book of Revelation, A Plaine Discovery, by the Scot John Napier of Merchiston. The ways in which Napier’s system was amalgamated in an English context have not previously been explored systematically. The article employs case studies of works by several scholars, emphasising common themes to establish