Reading certainty : exegesis and epistemology on the threshold of modernity : essays honoring the scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner

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Reading certainty : exegesis and epistemology on the threshold of modernity : essays honoring the scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner

edited by Ralph Keen, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Owings

（Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, v. 237）

Brill, c2023

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Reading Certainty offers incisive historical analysis of the foundational questions of the Christian tradition: how are we to read scripture, and how can we know we are saved? This collection of essays honors the work and thought Susan E. Schreiner by exploring the import of these questions across a wide range of time periods. With contributions from renowned scholars and from Schreiner's students from her more than three decades of teaching, each of the contributions highlights the nexus of certainty, perception, authority, and exegesis that has defined her scholarly work. Intellectual historians, early modernists, and scholars of Christianity will all appreciate this testament to Schreiner's influence. Contributors to this volume: Vincent Evener, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Keen, Mark Lambert, Kevin J. Madigan, Richard A. Muller, Willemien Otten, Daniel Owings, Elizabeth Palmer, Karen Park, Barbara Pitkin, Ronald K. Rittgers, William Schweiker, Jonathan Strom, and Matthew Vanderpoel.

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Preface Notes on Contributors Part 1: Forerunners 1 An Exercise in "Thinking Nature": Eriugena's Periphyseon against the Background of the History of Exegesis and Patristic Reception Willemien Otten 2 "Blessed Jerome": The Protestants and the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century Bruce Gordon 3 Waiting for the Miracle: Uncertainty, Superstition, and Trust in Jean Gerson Matthew Vanderpoel Part 2: The Reformation 4 Early Modern Protestants and the "Hard Knots" of the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Study of Reformation Certainty Ronald K. Rittgers 5 Melanchthon and the Utility of the Liberal Arts Ralph Keen 6 Distinguishing Divine and Human Speech: Idolatry and the Words of Institution in the Eucharistic Debates Daniel Owings 7 The Reformation of Doubt: Incredulity, Faith, the Body, and the Search for Certitude in Early Lutheran Interpretations of John 20:24-31 Barbara Pitkin 8 A Clearness Uneasily Observed: Leprosy, Perception, and Certitude in Calvin's A Harmony of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke Mark M. Lambert 9 Not without Scripture: William Perkins, the Light of Nature, and Proofs of the Existence of God Richard A. Muller 10 The Suffering and Death of Christ as Epistemological Framework in Reformation-Era Lutheran Teaching: Martin Luther, Veit Dietrich, and Cyriacus Spangenberg Vincent Evener Part 3: Into Modernity 11 Visions and Prophets in Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Germany: The Case of Jacob Fabricius Jonathan Strom 12 "Much More for Use in This Present Age": Augustine Baker and Life-Writing at Cambrai Abbey, 1624-1633 Karen E. Park 13 Evidence of Things Unseen: John Wesley's Heremeneutics of Conscience William Schweiker 14 The Bible and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy: The Vatican and Polemical and Physical Violence Kevin Madigan Afterword: Pages on Life's Way Elizabeth Palmer Index

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