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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Essary, Kirk (1984-....)
Titre(s) : Erasmus and Calvin on the foolishness of God [Texte imprimé] : reason and emotion in the Christian philosophy / Kirk Essary
Publication : Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-278 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Erasmus studies
Lien à la collection : Erasmus studies
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 261-272. Index
"What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human
wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses
of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what
Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the "Christian philosophy." Erasmus and Calvin
on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline rhetoric in the development
of humanist critiques of scholasticism while charting the formation of a specifically
affective approach to religious epistemology and theological method. As the first
book-length examination of Calvin's indebtedness to Erasmus, which also considers
the participation of Bullinger, Pellikan, and Melanchthon in an Erasmian exegetical
milieu, it is a case-study in the complicated cross-confessional exchange of ideas
in the sixteenth century. Kirk Essary examines assumptions about the very nature of
theology in the sixteenth century, how it was understood by leading humanist reformers,
and how ideas about philosophy and rhetoric were received, appropriated, and shared
in a complex intellectual and religious context."
Sujet(s) : Érasme (1469-1536) -- Dieu
Calvin, Jean (1509-1564) -- Dieu
Dieu -- Attributs
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages avant 1800
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781487501884. - ISBN 1487501889 (rel.). - ISBN 9781487514143. - ISBN 148751414X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45277537c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45277537
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Calvin's Erasmus, Theologia rhetorica, and Pauline Folly ; Foolishness as religious
knowledge ; Hidden wisdom and the revelation of the spirit ; Milk for babes : a
Pauline eloquence ; Blaming philosophy, praising folly ; The affective Christian
philosophy ; Conclusion.
