Reformation Studies

Covenant and Myth: Can Reformed Theology Survive without Adam and Eve

by Karl Hand

Australian eJournal of Theology Vol 19, No 1 (2012)

Reformed theology is a diverse movement, and has found many ways to interact with the presence of mythical stories in... more Reformed theology is a diverse movement, and has found many ways to interact with the presence of mythical stories in scripture. There is a strong tendency, however, to draw a 'line in the sand' at the historical existence of Adam because of the function that he plays in the history of the covenants - particularly the 'covenant of works'. This article problematises that line by suggesting that it is possible to build an authentically Reformed and covenantal theology without a historical Adam.

Hamlet and the French Wars of Religion

by Elizabeth Pentland

accepted for publication in The Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, edited by Martin Prochazka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, Hanna Scolnicov (Rowman & Littlefield).

Can Translating the Bible Be Bad for Your Health? William Tyndale and the Falsification of Memory

by Paul Arblaster

co-authored with Juhász Gergely

“Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in Daniel Sennert”, in Gideon Manning (ed.), "Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy" (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 77-98.

by Hiro Hirai

On the volume, see at http://bit.ly/IFdXO7

The work of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), professor of medicine at the Lutheran University of Wittenberg, encompasses... more The work of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), professor of medicine at the Lutheran University of Wittenberg, encompasses the cluster of issues raised by the early seventeenth-century intersection of matter theories and the life sciences, where the origin of life emerged as one of the most important questions. There the belief in spontaneous generation was particularly pertinent. Sennert wrote a treatise precisely on this subject, entitled "De spontaneo viventium ortu," published at the end of his masterpiece "Hypomnemata physica" (Frankfurt, 1636). There he developed a corpuscular interpretation of the origin of life to explain spontaneous generation, while biological generation provided the foundational model for his philosophical reflections in general. This article first analyzes Sennert’s discussions on the “normal” generation of living beings (plants, animals and human beings), the discussions which provide the basis of his doctrine on the origin of souls. Then his theory of spontaneous generation is examined on its own.


1. Introduction
2. The Origin of the Soul in Normal Generation
2.1. The Giver of Forms and Astral Causality
2.2. The Eduction of Forms
2.3. Jacob Schegk and Plastic Force
2.4. The Nature of the Seed and Its “Spiritus”
3. Spontaneous Generation in Sennert
3.1. The Soul, Seminal Principle and Corpuscles
3.2. The Atoms of Living Beings and Their Souls
4. Conclusions

Die Inschriften an Barthels Hof als Hinweis auf die Anfänge der christlichen Hebraistik in Leipzig. Eine Fortsetzung. In: leqach (Mitteilungen und Beiträge der Forschungsstelle Judentum, Leipzig) 10, 2012, 7-19.

by Tobias Funke

Der Renaissanceerker an Barthels Hof zu Leipzig und seine Inschriften. Ein Zeugnis christlicher Kabbala in Leipzig? In: leqach (Mitteilungen und Beiträge der Forschungsstelle Judentum, Leipzig) 8, 2009, 45-64.

by Tobias Funke

The Day the Middle Ages Ended: Revolutionary Themes in Martin Luther's Treatises of 1520

by James Mitchell

Jean Wirth, L'image à la fin du Moyen Age, 2011 Compte rendu / Book review

by Giulia Puma

La somme sur l’iconographie du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, publiée entre 1898 et 1932 par Emile Mâle, demeurait inégalée... more La somme sur l’iconographie du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, publiée entre 1898 et 1932 par Emile Mâle, demeurait inégalée jusqu’à ce que Jean Wirth entreprenne d’écrire sa propre synthèse sur l’image médiévale en trois volets. Après L’image à l’époque romane (1999), puis gothique (2008) voici le volume sur la fin du Moyen Âge. Jean Wirth y effectue une véritable mise à jour de la bibliographie sur l’image médiévale du XXe siècle, tous courants et pays confondus. Plus important encore, et fait inédit, l'auteur nous propose ce qu'il appelle une “mythologie chrétienne”, une explication rationalisée des principaux enjeux théologiques du christianisme, selon une démarche parallèle à celle de Freud avec la mythologie grecque. Son étude ne néglige aucun grand thème iconographique de la période et explore les deux sujets centraux que sont la Vierge à l’Enfant et le crucifix. Son livre s'achève avec une analyse brillante et fouillée de la rupture brutale que constitue la destruction organisée et volontaire des images au début du XVIe siècle dans les territoires réformés, entérinant la séparation entre l’art des collectionneurs et la production d’images pieuses.

Review of Pier Paolo Vergerio, Scritti capodistriani e del primo anno dell'esilio (a cura di S. Cavazza e U. Rozzo), vol. II, Il catalogo de' libri (1549), a cura di U. Rozzo, Trieste, Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Venezia Giulia, 2010 Cromohs, 16 (2011): 1-5

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK : http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/16_2011/santarelli_rozzo.html

Eresia, Riforma e Inquisizione nella Repubblica di Venezia del Cinquecento

by Daniele Santarelli

«Studi Storici Luigi Simeoni», LVII, 2007, p. 73-105

Morte di un eretico impenitente. Alcune note e documenti su Pomponio Algieri di Nola

by Daniele Santarelli

« Medioevo Adriatico », I, 2007, p. 117-134

Christian Speer: Die Sammlung Georg Rörers (1492–1557). Ein interdisziplinäres und multimediales Erschließungsprojekt an der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, in: Rehbein, Malte/Sahle, Patrick/Schassan, Torsten (Hrsg.), Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter – Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age (Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 2), Norderstedt 2009, S. 25–34.

by Christian Speer

The topic of this contribution is to describe an interdisciplinary and multimedia research project at the Thuringian... more The topic of this contribution is to describe an interdisciplinary and multimedia research project at the Thuringian University and Federal State Library Jena, which will present a collection of manuscripts and printings of the Luther co-worker Georg Rörer (1492–1557) in an online information system (University Multimedia Electronic Library of Jena). The most important part of this database will be the digitized and cataloged manuscripts and prints from Rörer’s Nachlass, whereby the manuscripts, scattered among several institutions, will be brought together for the first time in a virtual library. In order to promote the scholarly debate with the Rörer collection, the catalogue data sets belonging to the manuscripts and prints will be presented as work in progress, and potential users are invited to engage with and improve the data. Therefore, extensive search tools are offered along with the respective original sources, research tools, overviews to critical text editions and research literature. thiis allows for interested scholars to investigate the catalogues, to immediately identify unpublished texts, to examine difficult readings, to search for special characteristics or to submit to investigation into text as yet not classified. It will be possible to study as an entity the reception of the presented texts, their reproduction, interpretation and/or transformation, for instance in the meaning of an “Ideengeschichte”. In the long the project allows to evaluate the role and importance of Rörer and his collection and to give new impetus to reformation studies.

Christian Speer: Onlinekatalog der Handschriften Georg Rörers (1492–1557), Signaturen Ms. Bos. o 17A–17n, Bos. q. 24e, 24l, 24m, 24o, 25b–d (in Bearbeitung); Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, Historische Bestände, Sammlung Rörer.

by Christian Speer

Bos. o. 17A: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005264
Bos. o. 17B: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005480
Bos. o. 17C: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00011200
Bos. o. 17D: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00007875
Bos. o. 17a: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005719
Bos. o. 17b: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005639
Bos. o. 17c: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005513
Bos. o. 17d: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005354
Bos. o. 17e: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005784
Bos. o. 17k: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005916
Bos. o. 17l: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00006015
Bos. o. 17m: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00006922
Bos. o. 17n: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00006964
Bos. q. 24e: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00008264
Bos. q. 24l: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00008476
Bos. q. 24m: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00008604
Bos. q. 24o: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00008708
Bos. q. 25b: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00009825
Bos. q. 25c: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005253
Bos. q. 25d: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00005256

Sammelband 6463 des Kamenzer Stadtarchivs:
http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00010399

Christian Speer: Frömmigkeit und Politik. Städtische Eliten in Görlitz zwischen 1300 und 1550 (Hallische Beiträge zur Geschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit 8), Berlin 2011.

by Christian Speer

http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag/froemmigkeit-und-politik/9783050051826

Christian Speer/Stefan Michel (Hrsg.): Georg Rörer (1492 – 1557). Der Chronist der Wittenberger Reformation (Leucorea-Studien zur Geschichte der Reformation und der Lutherischen Orthodoxie 15), Leipzig 2012.

by Christian Speer

Georg Rörer (1492–1557). The Chronicler of the Wittenberg Reformation

[see german version below]
more Georg Rörer (1492–1557). The Chronicler of the Wittenberg Reformation

[see german version below]

Georg Rörer (1492–1557) was fascinated by Martin Luther and his theology to such a degree that, starting in 1522, he began to assemble a unique collection of sermon and lecture notes as well as table talks and letters by the Wittenberg reformer and his colleagues, among them Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Bugenhagen. Only with the critical Weimar Luther Edition was this treasure made generally accessible. But the exclusive focus on Luther obscured the fact that Rörer was more than a mere collector. As an irreplaceable member of the Wittenberg group of reformers he for example recorded the minutes of the Bible revision or supervised the printing of the Wittenberg Bible and other writings immediately at the printers’.
This volume documents the proceedings of a conference (held in 2010) dedicated to this collector and his collection.

Georg Rörer (1492–1557) legte seit 1522 eine in ihrer Art einmalige Sammlung von Predigt- und Vorlesungsmitschriften sowie Tischreden und Briefen Martin Luthers aber auch seiner Kollegen wie Philipp Melanchthon oder Johannes Bugenhagen an. Erst durch die kritische Weimarer Luther-Ausgabe konnte dieser Schatz gehoben werden. Die einseitige Fokussierung der Rörer-Rezeption auf Luther verdeckte aber, dass Rörer mehr als nur ein Sammler war. Er protokollierte z.B. als unersetzliches Mitglied der Wittenberger Reformatorengruppe die Ergebnisse der Bibelrevision oder überwachte den Druck der Wittenberger Bibel sowie weiterer Schriften direkt in den Druckereien. Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer Tagung aus dem Jahr 2010, die den Sammler und seine Sammlung in den Mittelpunkt stellte.

The Michelade in Nimes, 1567

by Allan Tulchin

published in French Historical Studies (2006)

Study of Protestant massacre  of Catholics in 1567. Argues that when in power, Protestants in 16th France could... more Study of Protestant massacre  of Catholics in 1567. Argues that when in power, Protestants in 16th France could be just as murderous as Catholics. Protestants massacred fewer people because they were a minority, not because they were ideologically opposed to using violence.

“Medicine and Astrology in the Renaissance: Some Aspects of Platonic Astral Medicine (Medicina e astrologia: aspetti della medicina astrale platonica),” in Germana Ernst (ed.), "Astrologia e divinazione nel Rinascimento" (Rome: Carocci, forthcoming in May 2012), pp. 203-219.

by Hiro Hirai

1. Introduction
2. Leoniceno’s Naturalistic Interpretation
3. Fernel’s Astral Medicine
4. Mizauld’s... more 1. Introduction
2. Leoniceno’s Naturalistic Interpretation
3. Fernel’s Astral Medicine
4. Mizauld’s Harmony between Heaven and Earth
5. Cardano’s Theory of Cosmic Heat
6. Gemma and the Apogee of Astral Medicine
7. The Paracelsians and the Quest for the Universal Medicine

Pocohontas's baptism: reformed theology and the paradox of desire.

by Erica Fudge

REVIEW “Luther, Cranach, and the Disenchantment of Art.” Review essay on Joseph L. Koerner, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago, 2004) Bookforum, Fall 2004.

by Stephen J. Campbell

“Seneca’s "Naturales Quaestiones" in Justus Lipsius’ "Physiologia Stoicorum": The World-Soul, Providence and Eschatology,” in Francesco Citti and Marco Beretta (eds.), "Seneca e le scienze naturali" (Florence: Olschki, forthcoming in June 2012), pp. 117-140.

by Hiro Hirai

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Seneca's Works in Lipsius' "Physiologia Stoicorum"
3.... more Contents

1. Introduction
2. Seneca's Works in Lipsius' "Physiologia Stoicorum"
3. "Naturales Quaestiones" in "Physiologia Stoicorum" I
4. "Naturales Quaestiones" in "Physiologia Stoicorum" II
5. "Naturales Quaestiones" in "Physiologia Stoicorum" III
Conclusions