Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century

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The reception of ancient Christian literature in the 17th century was not limited to theology or dogmatics; the multitude of genres is indicative of the way patristic texts were dealt with. Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopedias, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational conflict, philology, philosophical argumentation), the articles in this volume provide a quantitative evaluation of patristic quotations in the 17th century while also focusing on the way in which the altered understanding of the patristic texts is linked to the changed conditions under which they were read. In spite of the progress made in scholarship in the 17th century, there was a crisis in education and breaks with tradition. One of the results of this was that Augustine in particular lost his previously unchallenged position in the 16th century. With contributions by:Silke-Petra Bergjan, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Irene Dingel, Ralph Häfner, Karla Pollmann, Scott Mandelbrote, Diana Stanciu, Johann Anselm Steiger Cover Titel Table of Contents Silke-Petra Bergjan/Karla Pollmann: Vorbemerkungen I. Mining Patristics: Comparative Studies and Encyclopedic Enterprises Ralph Häfner: Shaping Early Modern Comparative Studies: The Significance of Christoph Arnold (1627–1685) Irene Dingel: Die Behandlung der Kirchenväter bei Pierre Bayle Karla Pollmann: »The same scene, and the same things acted«. Augustine as Intellectual Paradigm in Alexander Ross (1590–1654) II. Continuity and Critique: Biblical Hermeneutics and Intraconfessional Conflict Johann Anselm Steiger: Johann Gerhards Tractatus de legitima Scripturae Sacrae interpretatione und die patristische Tradition Silke-Petra Bergjan: Verus narrator extiti, non callidus disputator: Johannes Coccejus’ Lektüre der Kirchenväter im niederländischen Sabbatstreit III. Working on the Text: Origen and Athanasius in the 17th Century Scott Mandelbrote: Origen against Jerome in Early Modern Europe Hanns Christof Brennecke: Athanasius von Alexandrien in der abendländischen Rezeption bis zur Frühen Neuzeit IV. Direct and Indirect Tradition: Augustinian Agendas in Theology and Philosophy Diana Stanciu: Augustine’s Legacy in the Dutch Remonstrants and the Cambridge Platonists Gareth B. Matthews: The Problem of Evil in Augustine and Descartes Contibutors Index Nominum et Rerum