Reading Certainty
Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner
Published on 8. December 2022
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-90-04-18651-4 (ISBN)
Description
Reading Certainty offers incisive historical analysis of the foundational questions of the Christian tradition: how are we to read scripture, and how can we know we are saved? This collection of essays honors the work and thought Susan E. Schreiner by exploring the import of these questions across a wide range of time periods.
With contributions from renowned scholars and from Schreiner's students from her more than three decades of teaching, each of the contributions highlights the nexus of certainty, perception, authority, and exegesis that has defined her scholarly work. Intellectual historians, early modernists, and scholars of Christianity will all appreciate this testament to Schreiner's influence.
Contributors to this volume: Vincent Evener, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Keen, Mark Lambert, Kevin J. Madigan, Richard A. Muller, Willemien Otten, Daniel Owings, Elizabeth Palmer, Karen Park, Barbara Pitkin, Ronald K. Rittgers, William Schweiker, Jonathan Strom, and Matthew Vanderpoel.
With contributions from renowned scholars and from Schreiner's students from her more than three decades of teaching, each of the contributions highlights the nexus of certainty, perception, authority, and exegesis that has defined her scholarly work. Intellectual historians, early modernists, and scholars of Christianity will all appreciate this testament to Schreiner's influence.
Contributors to this volume: Vincent Evener, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Keen, Mark Lambert, Kevin J. Madigan, Richard A. Muller, Willemien Otten, Daniel Owings, Elizabeth Palmer, Karen Park, Barbara Pitkin, Ronald K. Rittgers, William Schweiker, Jonathan Strom, and Matthew Vanderpoel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
This edition will be of interest for scholars of Syriac, classics, philosophy, and Late Neo-Platonism.
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Approx. 325 pp.
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
686 gr
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978-90-04-18651-4 (9789004186514)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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