Erasmus and Calvin on the foolishness of God : reason and emotion in the Christian philosophy / Kirk Essary.

• 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.

• "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."-- 

Ämnesord

Christian philosophy  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Theology  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Philosophie chrétienne  -- Histoire -- 16e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Théologie  -- Histoire -- 16e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Christian philosophy.  (fast)

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)  (fast)

Theology.  (fast)

Teologi  -- historia (sao)

Religionsfilosofi  -- historia (sao)

Tro och vetande  -- historia (sao)

Känslor  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

1500-talet  (sao)

1500-1599  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Influence.

Érasme, -1536 -- Critique et interprétation.

Érasme, -1536 -- Influence.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 -- Critique et interprétation.

Paul, l'apôtre, saint -- Influence.

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Paulus, apostel, helgon, ca 3-63 -- influenser

Erasmus av Rotterdam, ca 1469-1536

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Influence.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564

Titel

Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. Épîtres de Paul -- Critique, interprétation, etc.

Bible. Epistles of Paul.

Bibeln. Paulus-breven

Klassifikation

BR350 E7 (LAC)

199/.492 (DDC)