Reading Certainty: Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner

Author:   Ralph Keen ,  Elizabeth Palmer ,  Daniel Owings
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   237
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9789004186514


Pages:   322
Publication Date:   08 December 2022
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Author:   Ralph Keen ,  Elizabeth Palmer ,  Daniel Owings
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   237
Weight:   0.686kg
ISBN:  

9789004186514


ISBN 10:   9004186514
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   08 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English & Syriac

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"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"

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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.

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