Learning from the Past Essays on Reception, Catholicity, and Dialogue in Honour of Anthony N. S. Lane

by Balserak, Jon; Snoddy, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780567660909
• ISBN10: 0567660907
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Two key ideas are here brought into clear focus. The first is the reception of the thought of earlier generations of biblical interpreters and theologians, a field which has been informed by work on Calvin's use of and relationship with the fathers and the medievals. The essays explore various facets of reception history-textual transmission, the identification of editions used, the deployment of these sources in doctrinal formulation, in polemic, and in relation to the contested site of 'catholicity'.
The second broad theme is the exchange of ideas across confessional boundaries with essays offering analyses of occasions when individuals or groups have learned something important from, or made a determined effort to engage constructively with, other confessional identities and allegiances. Research on the doctrine of justification in recent ecumenical dialogue and on the Regensburg Colloquy are models of scholarship in this area. The essays presented here will shed light on the past and stimulate contemporary theological reflection.

Author Biography

Jon Balserak (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Religion at the University of Bristol, UK.

Richard Snoddy (PhD) is Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface
Jon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK and Richard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK
1. Bernard of Clairvaux: Forerunner to St. Francis?
Dennis E. Tamburello, Siena College, USA
2. Two Annotated Books from the Library of William Farel
Max Engammare, Librairie Droz, Switzerland
3. The Freed Will: Can Augustine Teach Us to See Calvin in a New Light?
Jason Van Vliet, Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, CanadaJon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK
4. Facing Poland: Calvin's Polish Correspondence and the Geography of Reformation Europe
Richard A. Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary, USA
5. Re-visiting John Calvin's Hostility Towards French Nicodemism
Jon Balserak, University of Bristol, UK and Richard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK
6. The Protestant Image of the Council of Trent
Herman J. Selderhuis, Theological University of Apeldoorn, Netherlands
7. Seventeenth-Century French Conversion Narratives: Making Sense of Shifting Confessional Allegiances
Karin Maag, Calvin College, USA
8. The Sources of James Ussher's Patristic Citations on the Intent and Sufficiency of Christ's Satisfaction
Richard Snoddy, London School of Theology, UK
9. The Westminster Assembly and the Catholicity of the Church
Bob Letham, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK
10. The Blessed and Boundless God: The Legacy of Zanchius and Polanus in the Theology of George Swinnock
11. Francis Turretin and Jonathan Edwards on Contingency
Paul Helm, King's College London, UK
12. 'Pseudo'Macariu', Fletcher-and-Wesley, and Luke on Pentecost
Max Turner, London School of Theology, UK
13. Soren Kierkegaard as a Reader of Martin Luther
Randall C. Zachman, University of Notre Dame, USA
14. Lessons for an Evangelical Spirituality from Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Merton
Matthew Knell, London School of Theology, UK

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Index