Unaccommodated Calvin Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition

Name: Unaccommodated Calvin Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition
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ISBN: 9780195151688

ISBN-10: 0195151682

ISBN-13: 9780195151688

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard A. Muller

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This book attempts to understand Calvin in his sixteenth-century context, with attention to continuities and discontinuities between his thought and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. Richard Muller is particularly interested in the interplay between theological and philosophical themes common to Calvin and the medieval doctors, and in developments in rhetoric and method associated with humanism. He shows that Calvin's theology evidences the impact of humanist philology and rhetoric, of patristics, and also - both positively and negatively - of the categories of medieval scholastic thought. Calvin's conclusions, together with those of a group of contemporary Reformed…

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List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.21" wide x 5.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Richard A. Muller is professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a past winner of the MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of "Nemesis" (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and "Physics for Future Presidents" (Norton).




An Approach To Calvin: On Overcoming Modern Accommodations



Perspectives on Calvin's Text



Of Prefaces, "Arguments," and Letters to the Reader: Calvin's Testimonies to His Intention and Method



Scholasticism in Calvin: A Question of Relation and Disjunction



In the Light of Orthodoxy: The "Method and Disposition" of Calvin's Institutio from the Perspective of Calvin's Late-Sixteenth-Century Editors



Beyond the Abyss and the Labyrinth: An Ordo recte docendi



Text, Context, and Conversation: The Institutes in Calvin's Theological Program



To Elaborate on the Topics: The Context and Method of Calvin's Institutes



Establishing the ordo docendi: The Organization of Calvin's Institutes, 1536-1559



Fontes argumentorum and capita doctrinae: Method and Argument in Calvin's Construction of loci and disputationes



Fides and Cognitio in Relation to the Problem of Intellect and Will in the Theology of John Calvin



The Study of Calvin--Contexts and Directions


Notes


Bibliography


Index