A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli

by Kirby, Torrance; Campi, Emidio; James, Frank A., III

• ISBN13: 9789004175549
• ISBN10: 9004175547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The great Florentine Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) made a unique contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Renaissance and Reformation, where classical theories of interpretation derived from Patristic and Scholastic sources engaged with new methods drawn from Humanism and Hebraism. Vermigli was one of the pioneers of the sixteenth century in acknowledging and harnessing the biblical scholarship of the medieval Rabbis. His eminence in the Catholic Church in Italy (until 1542) was followed by an equally distinguished career as theologian and exegete in Protestant Europe where he was professor successively in Strasbourg, Oxford, and finally in Zurich. The Companion consists of 24 essays divided among five themes addressing Vermigli's international career, hermeneutical method, biblical commentaries, major theological topics, and his later influence. Contributors include: Scott Amos, Michael Baumann, Jon Balserak, Luca Baschera, Maurice Boutin, Emidio Campi, John Patrick Donnelly SJ, Max Engammare, Gerald Hobbs, Frank James III, Gary Jenkins, Robert Kingdon, Torrance Kirby, William Klempa, Joseph McLelland, Charlotte Methuen, Christian Moser, David Neelands, Peter Opitz, Herman Selderhuis, Daniel Shute, David Wright, and Jason Zuidema.

Author Biography

W.J. Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Center for Research on Religion at McGill University. He has published extensively on the thought of Richard Hooker, including the recent Brill Companion to Richard Hooker (2008). His monograph The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007) addresses Vermigli's political writings. Prof. Dr. Dr. Hc. Emidio Campi is director of the Institute for Swiss Reformation history and occupies the chair in Church History at the University of Zurich. He jointly edited Vermigli's Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006) and Petrus Martyr Vermigli: Humanismus, Republikanismus Reformation (2002). Frank A.James III is Professor of Historical Theology and Provost of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston. His books include Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination (1998) and a translation of Vermigli, Two Theological Loci: Predestination and Justification (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Convocation Oration	p. 19
International Career
Italy: Religious and Intellectual Ferment	p. 25
Strasbourg: Vermigli and the Senior School R.	p. 35
Oxford: Reading Scripture in the University	p. 71
Zurich: Professor in the Schola Tigurina	p. 95
Learning Sacred and Profane
Exegesis and Patristic Authority	p. 117
Aristotle and Scholasticism	p. 133
Humanism, Hebraism and Scriptural Hermeneutics	p. 161
Exegesis and Theological Method	p. 175
Ex Parte Videntium: Hermeneutics of the Eucharist	p. 195
Biblical Commentaries
Genesis Commentary: Interpreting Creation	p. 209
Commentary on Judges: Patristic and Medieval Sources	p. 231
Expounding Psalms: Preces Sacr¿	p. 249
Interpreting Lamentations: Theodicy and the Turks	p. 267
I Corinthians Commentary: Exegetical Tradition	p. 283
Romans Commentary: Justification and Sanctification	p. 305
Theological Loci
Classical Christology	p. 321
Predestination and the Thirty-Nine Articles	p. 355
Ecclesiology: Exegesis and Discipline	p. 375
Eucharistic Theology	p. 387
Political Theology: The Godly Prince	p. 401
Prayers and Sermons	p. 423
Epistolary: Theological Themes	p. 433
Nachleben
Josias Simler's Hagiography	p. 459
Vermigli and French Reform	p. 467
A Literary History of the Loci Communes	p. 479
Conclusion Vermigli's 'Stromatic' Theology	p. 495
Vermigli Studies Bibliography	p. 499
Index	p. 519
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