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Order of Contents
Articles 1
Book 1
Doctrinal 22 topics
Development of 34
Educational System 12
Method & Generas 7
Bios 4
Pastoral 4
Missions 1
Islam 2
Philosophy 9
Decline of 17
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Introductory Articles
Fesko, John – ‘An Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism’ The Counsel of Chalcedon (June/July 2000), pp. 10-15
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Book
‘Contemporary Perspectives on Reformed Orthodoxy: Reformed Confessions, Scholastic Thought & Puritan Divinity in Post-Reformation Protestantism’ being Perichoresis 14.3 (2016) Each article has a bibliography. Perichoresis is the theological journal of Emanuel University in Romania. The whole issue is devoted to the topic.
Muller, Richard – ‘Directions in the Study of Early Modern Reformed Thought’, pp. 3-16
Beck, Andreas J. – ‘Reformed Confessions & Scholasticism. Diversity & Harmony’, pp. 17-44
Abstract: “…the doctrine of the Reformed confessions was much in line with the scholastic theology of Reformed orthodoxy, this paper discusses, after having explained the terms ‘Reformed orthodoxy’ and ‘scholasticism’, the early Reformed scholastic theologians Beza, Zanchi, and Ursinus, who also have written confessional texts. The paper also includes a more detailed discussion of the Belgic Confession and the scholastic background of the Canons of Dordt and the Westminster Confession…”
Pederson, Randall J. – ‘Reformed Orthodoxy in Puritanism’, pp. 45-60
Fesko, John V. – ‘Reformed Orthodoxy on Imputation. Active & Passive Justification’, pp. 61-80
van den Brink, Gijsbert & Aza Goudriaan – ‘The Image of God in Reformed Orthodoxy. Soundings in the Development of an Anthropological Key Concept’, pp. 81-96
te Velde, Dolf – ‘The Relevance of Reformed Scholasticism for Contemporary Systematic Theology’, pp. 97-114
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Doctrinal
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Order of Topics
Systematic Theology
God
2 Kingdoms, Providence, Politics
Theology
Anthropology
Grace
Atonement
Decrees
Assurance
Incarnation
Scripture
Worship & Images
Christ
Union with Christ
Work of Christ
Gospel Call
Lord’s Supper
Arminianism
Covenant Theology
Natural Theology & Law
Eschatology
Antinomianism
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Systematic Theology
Article
te Velde, Dolf – ‘The Relevance of Reformed Scholasticism for Contemporary Systematic Theology’ Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, vol. 14 no. 3 (2016), pp. 97-115
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God
Articles
te Velde, Dolf – ‘Eloquent Silence: The Doctrine of God in the “Synopsis of Purer Theology”‘ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 92, no. 4 (2012), pp. 581-608
Rehnman, Sebastian – ‘Theistic Metaphysics & Biblical Exegesis: Francis Turretin on the Concept of God’ Religious Studies, vol. 38, no. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 167-86
Barrett, Jordan P. – ch. 4. ‘Divine Simplicity from the Reformation to Karl Barth’ in Divine Simplicity: A Biblical & Trinitarian Account (Augsburg, Fortress, 2017), pp. 93-132
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Books
Merkle, Benjamin – Triune Elohim: the Heidelberg Antitrinitarians & Reformed Readings of Hebrew in the Confessional Age PhD diss. (Univ. of Oxford, 2012)
Abstract: “In 1563, the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism marked the conversion of the Rhineland Palatinate to a stronghold for Reformed religion. Immediately thereafter, however, the Palatinate church experienced a deeply unsettling surge in the popularity of antitrinitarianism… later, the displaced Italian theologian and Heidelberg professor, Girolamo Zanchi… [wrote] his De Tribus Elohim (1572)… [the] variety of responses to Zanchi’s argument demonstrates the diversity of assumptions about the nature of the biblical text within the Reformed church, contradicting the notion that the Reformed world in the age of “confessionalization” was becoming increasingly homogenous or that the works of John Calvin had become the authoritative touchstone of Reformed orthodoxy in this period.”
Beck, Andreas J. – Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, & Contingency Pre (Brill, 2022) 600 pp. ToC
Lee, Hansang – Trinitarian Theology & Piety: The Attributes of God in the Thought of Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) & William Perkins (1558-1602) PhD diss. (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2009)
Abstract: “Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) is arguably remembered for his importance, at the zenith of Puritan or English Reformed scholastic divinity, in terms of the doctrine of God’s existence and attributes… His work, with its eclectic acceptance of medieval scholastic intellectual tradition as a tool, plays a significant role in the development of an historical phase of trinitarian and federal theology.”
Gutierrez, Julian – The Lord Reigns Supreme: an Investigation on Stephen Charnock’s Exegetical, Doctrinal & Practical Theology concerning the Existence & the Attributes of God PhD diss. (Univ. of St. Andrews, 2017)
Abstract: “The findings of this investigation indicate that Charnock’s discourses are theological sermons primarily intended for homiletical purposes and yet organised and reasoned per the scholastic method.”
Duby, Steven – Divine Simplicity: a Dogmatic Account PhD diss. (Univ. of St. Andrews, 2014)
Abstract: “This thesis offers a constructive account of the doctrine of divine simplicity in Christian theology. In its methodology, the thesis aims to present this divine perfection as an implicate of the scriptural portrayal of God, to draw upon the insights and conceptual resources of Thomas Aquinas and various Reformed orthodox theologians, and to respond to some objections to divine simplicity…”
te Velde, Roelf Theodoor – Paths Beyond Tracing Out: the Connection of Method & Content in the Doctrine of God, Examined in Reformed Orthodoxy, Karl Barth & the Utrecht School PhD diss. (Theological Univ. of Kampen, 2010) 711 pp.
Abstract: “The first part joins the revived interest in Reformed scholastic theology, and attempts to discover the inner dynamics of this allegedly dry and rigid, Aristotelian theology… In the third part, a first comprehensive description and analysis of the efforts of the so-called Utrecht School is provided. The final chapter draws some lines for developing a Reformed doctrine of God in the 21st century.”
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2 Kingdoms & Providence & Politics
Articles
VanDrunen, David
‘The Use of Natural Law in Early Calvinist Resistance Theory’ Journal of Law & Religion, vol. 21, no. 1 (2005 / 2006), pp. 143-67
‘The Two Kingdoms Doctrine & the Relationship of Church & State in the Early Reformed Tradition’, Journal of Church & State, vol. 49, no. 4 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 743-63
Campbell, Ian W.S. – ‘Calvinist Absolutism: Archbishop James Ussher & Royal Power’ Journal of British Studies, vol. 53, No. 3 (July, 2014), pp. 588-610
Beeke, Jonathon – ‘The 9 Defended Propositions’ of his Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ’s Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Univ. of Groningen, 2019)
Abstract: “…it does ask the question, “How was the doctrine of Christ’s twofold kingdom expressed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?” The research concentrates on select Reformers of the sixteenth century and representative intellectual centers of the seventeenth century (notably, Geneva, Leiden, and Edinburgh). A primary concern is to trace the development of this doctrine over the two centuries in question.”
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Books
van Nierop, Henk – The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe, 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets & Politics in the Dutch Golden Age (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2018) 446 pp. ToC
Baylor, Timothy – A Great King Above All gods: Dominion & Divine Government in the Theology of John Owen PhD diss. (Univ. of St. Andrews, 2016)
Abstract: “Scholarship has tended to depict John Owen as a “Reformed catholic” attempting a synthesis of Reformed principles with a largely Thomist doctrine of God. In this thesis, I argue that this depiction risks losing sight of those aspects of Owen’s doctrine of God that are intended to support a distinctly Protestant account of the economy of grace… In chapter one, I argue against prevailing readings of Owen’s thought that his theology of the divine will is, in fact, “voluntarist” in nature, prioritizing God’s will over his intellect in the determination of the divine decree.”
Kirby, W. J. Torrance – The Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy in the Thought of Richard Hooker PhD diss. (Univ. of Oxford, 1987)
Burton, Simon – ‘The Scholastic & Conciliar Roots of Samuel Rutherford’s Political Philosophy: the Influence of Jean Gerson, Jacques Almain & John Mair’ in Alexander Broadie, Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century in A History of Scottish Philosophy Pre (Oxford, 2020), pp. 208-226
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Theology
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Bangs, Carl – ‘Dutch Theology, Trade & War: 1590-1610’ Church History, vol. 39, no. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 470-82
Trueman, Carl – ‘Puritanism as Ecumenical Theology’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 81, no. 3 (2001), pp. 326-36
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Book
ed. Denlinger, Aaron C. – Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 Pre Buy (London: 2015) 270 pp. ToC
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Anthropology
Article
Pitkin, Barbara – ‘The Protestant Zeno: Calvin & the Development of Melanchthon’s Anthropology’ The Journal of Religion, vol. 84, no. 3 (July 2004), pp. 345-78
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Books
Jones, Mark – Why Heaven Kissed Earth: the Christology of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) PhD diss. (Leiden, 2009) 292 pp. ToC
Donnelly, John Patrick – Calvinism & Scholasticism in Vermigli’s Doctrine of Man & Grace in Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought (Leiden: Brill, 1976) 240 pp. ToC
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Grace
Book
Donnelly, John Patrick – Calvinism & Scholasticism in Vermigli’s Doctrine of Man & Grace in Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought (Leiden: Brill, 1976) 240 pp. ToC
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Atonement
Books
Armstrong, Brian – Calvinism & the Amyraut heresy; Protestant Scholasticism & Humanism in Seventeenth-Century France (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1969) 350 pp. ToC
Kang Hyo Ju – The Extent of the Atonement in the Thought of John Davenant (1572-1641) in the Context of the Early Modern Era PhD diss. (Univ. of Aberdeen, 2018) 207 pp.
Fraser of Brea
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Decrees
Articles
Voak, Nigel – ‘English Molinism in the Late 1590’s: Richard Hooker on Free Will, Predestination & Divine Foreknowledge’ The Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, vol. 60, no. 1 (April, 2009), pp. 130-77
Venema, Cornelis – ‘Heinrich Bullinger’s Correspondence on Calvin’s Doctrine of Predestination, 1551-1553’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 17, no. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 435-50
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Books
Kim, San-Deog – Time & Eternity: a Study in Samuel Rutherford’s Theology, with Reference to his Use of Scholastic Method Ref (Univ. of Aberdeen, 2002)
Jones, Mark – Why Heaven Kissed Earth: the Christology of Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680) PhD diss. (Leiden, 2009) 292 pp. ToC
Fesko, J.V. – Diversity within the Reformed Tradition: Supra- and Infralapsarianism in Calvin, Dort & Westminster (Univ. of Aberdeen, 1999)
Abstract: “Scholars argue that it was scholasticism and rationalism that turned Calvin’s biblical doctrine of predestination into an arid metaphysical system of decrees. This thesis argues contra the modern critics that post-Reformation Reformed theologians did not distort Calvin’s doctrine of predestination but rather modified it… The thesis demonstrates that Calvin was a supralapsarian and that Dort and Westminster are infralapsarian.”
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Assurance
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Winship, Michael P. – ‘Weak Christians, Backsliders & Carnal Gospelers: Assurance of Salvation & the Pastoral Origins of Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s’ Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 462-81
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Book
Master, Jonathan Lair – Anthony Burgess & the Westminster Doctrine of Assurance PhD diss. (Univ. of Aberdeen, 2012)
Abstract: “Burgess’ writings are informed by three aspects of his personal background. The first of these is his status as part of the English Puritan movement in the 17th century; the second is his status as a pastor; the third is his scholastic training, which informed his method of argumentation on the assurance of faith.”
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Incarnation
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Spencer, Stephen – Reformed Scholasticism in Medieval Perspective: Thomas Aquinas & Francois Turrettini on the Incarnation PhD diss. (Michigan State Univ., 1988) 285 pp.
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Scripture
Articles
Nellen, Henk & Jan Bloemendal – ‘Erasmus’s Biblical Project: Some Thoughts & Observations on Its Scope, Its Impact in the Sixteenth Century & Reception in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 96, no. 4, Special Issue: Littera scripta manet: Erasmus and the 1516 Novum Instrumentum (2016), pp. 595-635
Voak, Nigel – ‘Richard Hooker & the Principle of ‘Sola Scriptura’ The Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, vol. 59, no. 1 (April, 2008), pp. 96-139
Stanglin, Keith – ‘The Rise & Fall of Biblical Perspicuity: Remonstrants & the Transition toward Modern Exegesis’ Church History, vol. 83, no. 1 (March, 2014), pp. 38-59
ed. Holcomb, Justin – Part II: Reformation & Counter-Reformation, chs. 5-8 in Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (NYU Press, 2006), pp. 83-154 ToC
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Books
Leslie, Andrew Michael – “Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ”: Divine Authority, Scripture & the Life of Faith in the Thought of John Owen (1616-1683) PhD diss. (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2013)
Schneider, J. R. – Melanchthon’s Idea of Biblical Authority as it Developed under the Influence of his Rhetorical Theory to 1521 PhD diss. Abstract (Univ. of Cambridge, 1986)
Ward, Timothy – Word & Supplement: Reconstructing the Doctrine of the Sufficiency of Scripture PhD diss. (Univ. of Edinburgh, 1999)
Abstract: “The body of the thesis begins with an analytical overview of the history of the doctrine’s development and decline, focusing on its full articulation in the Protestant Reformation and in post-Reformation Protestant scholasticism, (chapter 2). Theologians of the latter type, particularly Francis Turretin, are defended against the charge that they departed significantly from the Reformation understanding of Scripture… with a defence of the orthodox Protestant doctrine of biblical inspiration, as articulated by B.B. Warfield. A conception of the canon of Scripture as ‘sufficient’ is offered.”
van den Belt, Hendrik – Autopistia: the Self-Convincing Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology PhD diss. (Leiden Univ., 2006) 345 pp. ToC
“Autopistia offers a historical survey and a theological evaluation of the self-convincing character of Scripture in Reformed theology. Calvin adopted the term autopistos from ancient Greek philosophy and used it to express that faith does not rest on the human authority of the church but on Scripture as the living voice of God. After discussing the meaning of the term in Reformed Orthodoxy and analyzing the theological position of Benjamin B. Warfield and Herman Bavinck on this issue… Van den Belt draws his theological conclusions in this study, advocating a revitalization of the autopistia of Scripture…”
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Worship & Images
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Bridges, Timothy – ‘Down with it, even to the ground’: William Dowsing’s Reception of the Iconoclastic Rationale PhD diss. (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2009)
Abstract: “Caricatured as the Arch Vandal, William Dowsing (bap. 1596-1668) was a farmer and a soldier who entered into history as a radical figure in the English Civil War between Charles I and the Long Parliament. The Earl of Manchester commissioned Dowsing to tear down ‘pictures and superstitious images’ in the name of God and a parliamentary ordinance of 1643. The commission grew out of a series of puritan reform measures which aimed to overthrow the ‘popish innovations’ implemented in part by Archbishop William Laud in the 1630s… The objective [of this thesis] is to penetrate the puritan movement and to explore iconoclastic thought ‘from within’.”
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Christ
Article
Bell, Michael D. – ‘Maccovius (1588—1644) on the Son of God as ἀυτóϑεος’
Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 91, no. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011), pp. 105-19
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Union with Christ
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Farthing, John L. – ‘De Coniugio Spirituali [On Spiritual Marriage], Jerome Zanchi on Ephesians 5:22-33′ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 24, no. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 621-52
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Book
Carter, Jonathan Mark – ‘Partakers of his Divine Nature’: the Reality of Union with Christ in Thomas Goodwin’s Defence of Reformed Soteriology PhD diss. (Univ. of Edin., 2017)
Abstract: “…the majority of Goodwin’s treatises were composed during the 1650s and intended to form a grand project defending Reformed soteriology against the new threats of Socinian and radical teachings as well as its traditional opponents, Catholics and Arminians. Goodwin considered this grand project to be his life’s work. It represents the longest exposition of Reformed soteriology composed by an English puritan. However, no modern critical study of the soteriology of his grand project has appeared to date. This thesis, therefore, offers a theological examination in light of his immediate historical context. The study focuses on union with Christ, because Goodwin assumed it occupied a fundamental role in salvation and, therefore, it allows identification of the architectonic structures of his soteriology. The immediate historical context is privileged, because union with Christ (and related loci) was a point of sharp dispute in the 1640s–1650s.”
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Work of Christ
Book
Tay, Edwin E.M. – Priesthood of Christ in the Atonement Theology of John Owen (1616-1683) PhD diss. (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2010)
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The Gospel Call
Article
van den Belt, Henk – ‘The Vocatio [Call] in the Leiden Disputations (1597—1631): The Influence of the Arminian Controversy on the Concept of the Divine Call to Salvation’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 92, no. 4 (2012), pp. 539-59
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Lord’s Supper
Book
Cameron, James K. – The Theory of Eucharistic Presence in the Early Caroline Divines, Examined in its European Theological Setting PhD diss. (Univ. of St. Andrews, 1985)
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Arminianism
Articles
Guibbory, Achsah – ‘Donne’s Religion: Montagu, Arminianism & Donne’s Sermons, 1624-1630’ English Literary Renaissance, vol. 31, no. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 412-39
Stanglin, Keith D. – ‘Johannes Kuchlinus, the ‘Faithful Teacher’: His Role in the Arminian Controversy & His Impact as a Theological Interpreter & Educator’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 87, no. 3 (2007), pp. 305-26
Kuchlinus (1546-1606) was a reformed pastor in Amsterdam and the founding regent of the theological college at Leiden University, “who influenced a generation”, particularly during the boiling controversy between Arminius and Gomarus on the faculty at Leiden.
den Boer, William – ‘”Cum delectu“: Jacob Arminius’s (1559—1609) Praise for & Critique of Calvin & His Theology’ Church History & Religious Culture, Vol. 91, No. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011), pp. 73-86
van den Belt, Henk – ‘The Vocatio [Call] in the Leiden Disputations (1597—1631): The Influence of the Arminian Controversy on the Concept of the Divine Call to Salvation’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 92, no. 4 (2012), pp. 539-59
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Book
Yagi, Takayuki – A Gift from England: William Ames & his Polemical Discourse Against Dutch Arminianism (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2020)
Abstract: “In the face of Remonstrant teaching which tended to compromise divine sovereignty at the cost of human freedom, Ames made serious efforts to maintain the supremacy of God in his works of predestination, redemption, conversion, and perseverance, while at the same time establishing human freedom. Through these efforts, Ames vigorously defended the Reformed tradition… To do this, he appropriated various medieval scholastic distinctions. Some of these distinctions were already established in the Reformed tradition… The use of other distinctions, such as those used for explaining the compatibility between the irresistibility of grace and human freedom, appear to have been pioneered in Reformed thought by Ames.”
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Covenant Theology
Articles
Strehle, Stephen – ‘Fides aut Foedus [Faith or Covenant]: Wittenberg & Zurich in Conflict over the Gospel’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 3-20
Bierma, Lyle – ‘The Role of Covenant Theology in Early Reformed Orthodoxy’ in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 453-62
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On Henry Hammond
McGiffert, Michael – ‘Henry Hammond & Covenant Theology’ Church History, vol. 74, no. 2 (Jun., 2005), pp. 255-85
Hammond was an English Arminian.
Lettinga, Neil – ‘Covenant Theology Turned Upside Down: Henry Hammond & Caroline Anglican Moralism: 1643-1660’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 24, no. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 653-69
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Books
Woolsey
Blacketer, Raymond A. – ‘Arminius’ Concept of Covenant in its Historical Context’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 80, no. 2 (2000), pp. 193-220
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Natural Theology & Natural Law
Articles
Kirby, W.J. Torrance – ‘Richard Hooker’s Theory of Natural Law in the Context of Reformation Theology’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 30, no. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 681-703
VanDrunen, David – ‘The Use of Natural Law in Early Calvinist Resistance Theory’ Journal of Law & Religion, vol. 21, no. 1 (2005 / 2006), pp. 143-67
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Books
Woolford, Thomas – Natural Theology & Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance PhD diss. (Univ. of Cambridge, 2012)
Mangold, Matthias – ‘Salomon van Til (1643—1713): His Appropriation of Cartesian Tenets in His Compendium of Natural Theology’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 94, no. 3 (2014), pp. 337-57
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Eschatology
Article
Clouse, Robert G. – Johann Heinrich Alsted & English Millennialism The Harvard Theological Review, vol. 62, no. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 189-207
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Antinomianism
Donato, Christopher John – ‘”Against the Law: Milton’s (Anti?) Nomianism in De Doctrina Christiana“‘ The Harvard Theological Review, vol. 104, no. 1 (Jan., 2011), pp. 69-91
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On the Development of Reformed Scholasticism
Articles
Svensson, Manfred – ‘Fundamental Doctrines of the Faith, Fundamental Doctrines of Society: Seventeenth-Century Doctrinal Minimalism’ The Journal of Religion, vol. 94, no. 2 (April 2014), pp. 161-81
van Asselt, Willem J.
‘Protestant Scholasticism: Some Methodological Considerations in the Study of its Development’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 81, no. 3 (2001), pp. 265-74
‘Scholasticism Revisited: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Seventeenth-Century Reformed Thought’ in Seeing Things their Way: Intellectual History & the Return of Religion (2009), pp. 154-74
‘Scholasticism Protestant & Catholic: Medieval Sources & Methods in Seventeenth Century Reformed Thought’ Jewish & Christian Perspectives Series, vol. 8 (2004), pp. 457-70
van ’t Spijker, Willem
‘Early Reformation & Scholasticism’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 81, no. 3 (2001), pp. 290-305
eds. Boerke & Klok, Martin Bucer (1491-1551): Collected Studies on his Life, Work, Doctrine & Influence Pre (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018) ToC
‘Reformation between Patristics & Scholasticism. Bucer’s Theological Position’, pp. 37-60
‘Reformation & Scholasticism’, pp. 61-78
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Regarding Calvin
Steinmetz, David C. – ‘The Scholastic Calvin’ in eds. Carl Trueman & R. Scott Clark, Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment Pre Buy (Paternoster, 1999), pp. 16-30
Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 91, no. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011)
Trueman, Carl R. – ‘The Reception of Calvin: Historical Considerations’, pp. 19-27
Vos, Antonie – ‘The Systematic Place of Reformed Scholasticism: Reflections Concerning the Reception of Calvin’s Thought’, pp. 29-41
Baschera, Luca – ‘Independent Yet Harmonious: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the Theology of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499—1562) & John Calvin’, pp. 43-57
te Velde, Dolf – “Soberly & Skillfully”: John Calvin & Jerome Zanchi (1516—1590) as Proponents of Reformed Doctrine’, pp. 59-71
den Boer, William – ‘”Cum delectu”: Jacob Arminius’s (1559—1609) Praise for & Critique of Calvin & His Theology’, pp. 73-86
Bell, Michael D. – ‘Maccovius (1588—1644) on the Son of God as ἀυτóϑεος’, pp. 105-119
Beck, Andreas J. – ‘”Expositio Reverentialis”: Gisbertus Voetius’s (1589—1676) Relationship with John Calvin’, pp. 121-33
Neele, Adriaan C. – ‘The Reception of John Calvin’s Work by Petrus van Mastricht (1630—1706)’, pp. 149-163
Goudriaan, Aza – ‘Ulrik Huber (1636—1694) & John Calvin: The Franeker Debate on Human Reason & the Bible (1686—1687)’, pp. 165-78
van der Pol, Frank – ‘The Profile & Use of John Calvin in the “Dissertatie” & the “Institutiones theologiae practicae” of Simon Oomius (1630—1706)’, pp. 179-192
Hoek, Peter – ‘Melchior Leydecker (1642—1721): Reformed Scholasticism of a Catholic Character in Calvin’s Footsteps’, pp. 193-201
Gootjes, Albert – ‘Calvin & Saumur: The Case of Claude Pajon (1626—1685)’, pp. 203-14
Minkema, Kenneth – ‘A “Dordtian Philosophe”: Jonathan Edwards, Calvin & Reformed Orthodoxy’, pp. 241-53
Muller, Richard – ‘The “Reception of Calvin” in Later Reformed Theology: Concluding Thoughts’, pp. 255-74
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France & Scotland
Armstrong, Brian – ‘The Calvinism of Moïse Amyraut: The Warfare of Protestant Scholasticism & French Humanism’ Church History, vol. 37, no. 2 (Jun., 1968), pp. 205-6
Gootjes, Albert – ‘Calvin & Saumur: The Case of Claude Pajon (1626—1685)’ in Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 91, no. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011), pp. 203-14
Ryken, Philip G. ‘Scottish Reformed Scholasticism’ in eds. Carl Trueman & R. Scott Clark, Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment Pre Buy (Paternoster, 1999), pp. 196-210
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Books
Merkle, Benjamin – Triune Elohim: the Heidelberg Antitrinitarians & Reformed Readings of Hebrew in the Confessional Age PhD diss. (Univ. of Oxford, 2012)
Abstract: “In 1563, the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism marked the conversion of the Rhineland Palatinate to a stronghold for Reformed religion. Immediately thereafter, however, the Palatinate church experienced a deeply unsettling surge in the popularity of antitrinitarianism… later, the displaced Italian theologian and Heidelberg professor, Girolamo Zanchi… [wrote] his De Tribus Elohim (1572)… [the] variety of responses to Zanchi’s argument demonstrates the diversity of assumptions about the nature of the biblical text within the Reformed church, contradicting the notion that the Reformed world in the age of “confessionalization” was becoming increasingly homogenous or that the works of John Calvin had become the authoritative touchstone of Reformed orthodoxy in this period.”
Murdock, Graeme – International Calvinism & the Reformed Church of Hungary & Transylvania, 1613-1658 PhD diss. (Univ. of Oxford, 1996)
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On Italy & Switzerland
Articles
Donnelly, John – ‘Italian Influences on the Development of Calvinist Scholasticism’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 7, no. 1 (Apr., 1976), pp. 81-101
Baschera, Luca – ‘Independent Yet Harmonious: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the Theology of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499—1562) & John Calvin’, pp. 43-57
James III, Frank A. – ‘Peter Martyr Vermigli: at the Crossroads of Late Medieval Scholasticism, Christian Humanism & Resurgent Augustinianism’ in eds. Carl Trueman & R. Scott Clark, Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment Pre Buy (Paternoster, 1999), pp. 62-78
te Velde, Dolf – “Soberly & Skillfully”: John Calvin & Jerome Zanchi (1516—1590) as Proponents of Reformed Doctrine’ in Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 91, no. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011), pp. 59-71
Burnett, Amy Nelson – ‘Generational Conflict in the Late Reformation: The Basel Paroxysm’ The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 32, no. 2 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 217-42
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Book
Taplin, Mark – The Italian Reformers & the Zurich Church, c.1540-1620 PhD diss. (Univ. of St. Andrews, 1999)
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On the Netherlands & Synod of Dort
Articles
van Asselt, W.J. – ‘Review: No Dordt Without Scholasticism: Willem Verboom on the Canons of Dordt’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 87, no. 2 (2007), pp. 203-10
van der Walt, B.J. – ‘Flagging Philosophical Minefields at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) – Reformed Scholasticism Reconsidered’ Koers: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, v. 76, no. 3 (2011), pp. 505-38
Abstract: “This article investigates the phenomenon of reformed Scholasticism (of about 1550-1700), as it occurred at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) and its Canons. More specifically, it focuses on the central problem at the Synod, viz. the relationship between God and human beings, as expressed in the ideas contained in the Canon regarding divine election and reprobation.
As [an] illustration the positions of two leading figures in the clash between the Calvinists and the Remonstrants, namely that of Gomarus (1563-1641) and Arminius (1560-1609), are philosophically analysed. In spite of the fact that neither viewpoint was eventually accepted by the Synod, their theologies clearly reflect the dominant scholastic philosophy of the time.”
Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 91, no. 1/2, The Reception of John Calvin & His Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (2011)
den Boer, William – ‘”Cum delectu“: Jacob Arminius’s (1559—1609) Praise for & Critique of Calvin & His Theology’, pp. 73-86
Bell, Michael D. – ‘Maccovius (1588—1644) on the Son of God as ἀυτóϑεος’, pp. 105-119
Beck, Andreas J. – ‘”Expositio Reverentialis“: Gisbertus Voetius’s (1589—1676) Relationship with John Calvin’, pp. 121-33
Neele, Adriaan C. – ‘The Reception of John Calvin’s Work by Petrus van Mastricht (1630—1706)’, pp. 149-163
Goudriaan, Aza – ‘Ulrik Huber (1636—1694) & John Calvin: The Franeker Debate on Human Reason & the Bible (1686—1687)’, pp. 165-78
van der Pol, Frank – ‘The Profile & Use of John Calvin in the “Dissertatie” & the “Institutiones theologiae practicae” of Simon Oomius (1630—1706)’, pp. 179-192
Hoek, Peter – ‘Melchior Leydecker (1642—1721): Reformed Scholasticism of a Catholic Character in Calvin’s Footsteps’, pp. 193-201
Minkema, Kenneth – ‘A “Dordtian Philosophe”: Jonathan Edwards, Calvin & Reformed Orthodoxy’, pp. 241-53
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Books
van Nierop, Henk – The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe, 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets & Politics in the Dutch Golden Age (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2018) 446 pp. ToC
Hollewand, K.E. – The Banishment of Beverland: Sex, Scripture & Scholarship in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic PhD diss. (Univ. of Oxford, 2016)
Abstract: “Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) was banished from Holland in 1679. Why did this humanist scholar get into so much trouble in the most tolerant part of Europe in the seventeenth century?… By restricting sex to marriage, in compliance with Reformed doctrine, secular authorities upheld a sexual morality that was unattainable, Beverland argued… His intervention came at the moment when the uneasy balance struck between Reformed orthodoxy, humanist scholarship, economic prosperity, and patrician politics, which had characterized the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, was disintegrating, with unsettling consequences for all concerned.”
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On England
Books
Pederson, Randall James – Unity in Diversity: English Puritans & the Puritan Reformation, 1603-1689 PhD diss. (Leiden Univ., 2013)
Abstract: “This work provides a historiographical and historical survey of current issues within Puritanism, critiques notions of Puritanisms, which tend to fragment the phenomenon, and introduces unitas within diversitas in three divergent Puritans, John Downame, Francis Rous, and Tobias Crisp.”
Hampton, Stephen William Peter – Reformed Scholasticism & the Battle for Orthodoxy in the Later Stuart Church PhD diss. Ref (Univ. of Oxford, 2002)
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On the Educational System
Articles
Burnett, Amy – ‘The Educational Roots of Reformed Scholasticism: Dialectic & Scriptural Exegesis in the Sixteenth Century’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 84 (2004), pp. 299-317
Martin, Dennis – ‘Schools of the Prophets: Shepherds & Scholars in New England Puritanism’ Historical Reflections, vol. 5, no. 1 (Summer, 1978), pp. 41-80
Scharlemann, Robert – ‘Theology in Church & University: The Post-Reformation Development’ Church History, vol. 33, no. 1 (Mar., 1964), pp. 23-33
Grendler, Paul – ‘The Universities of the Renaissance & Reformation’ Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 1-42
Broeyer, F.G.M. – ‘Theological Education at the Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth Century: Four Professors on their Ideal of the Curriculum’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 85 (2005), pp. 115-32
Beck, Andreas J. – ‘The European Reformation as a Religious & Educational Movement: Diversity & Unity’ in eds. Hannu Takkulu et al., Celebrating 500 Years of Reformation in the European Parliament: 17th October 2017 (Brussels: ALDE/EPP/ECR/S&D/ELCF, 2018), pp. 23–27
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Book
Lindseth, Erik Lars – Evolution of Protestant Ideas & the Humanist Academic Tradition in Scotland: with Special Reference to Scandinavian/Lutherian Influences (Univ. of Edinburgh, 1991)
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England
Article
Maitland, David J. – ‘Puritans & University Reform’ Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985), vol. 43, no. 2 (June 1965), pp. 100-23
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Book
Hoyle, David – Reformation & Religious Identity in Cambridge, 1590-1644 in History of the University of Cambridge (Boydell Press, 2007) 266 pp. ToC
Hannam, James – Teaching Natural Philosophy & Mathematics at Oxford & Cambridge 1500-1570 (Univ. of Cambridge, 2008)
Macfarlane, Kirsten – Hugh Broughton (1549-1612): Scholarship, Controversy & the English Bible Ref (Univ. of Oxford, 2017)
Abstract: “There is still a broad assumption that Reformed beliefs about scripture were incompatible with the most advanced biblical scholarship. This thesis questions such assumptions… By demonstrating that it was possible to produce innovative and influential work without challenging and indeed, while endorsing the principles of Reformed scripturalism, this thesis disputes current teleological presumptions about the development of modern, historical biblical criticism.”
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Scotland
Lindseth, Erik Lars – Evolution of Protestant Ideas & the Humanist Academic Tradition in Scotland: with Special Reference to Scandinavian/Lutheran Influences (Univ. of Edinburgh, 1991)
Gellera, Giovanni – Natural Philosophy in the Graduation Theses of the Scottish Universities in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (Univ. of Glasgow, 2012)
Abstract: “The graduation theses of the Scottish universities in the first half of the seventeenth century are at the crossroads of philosophical and historical events of fundamental importance: Renaissance and Humanist philosophy, Scholastic and modern philosophy, Reformation and Counter-reformation, the rise of modern science… Graduation theses adhere[d] to the Scholastic tradition, especially Scotism, while being innovative in their opposition to Catholic forms of Scholasticism.”
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On the Method & Generas of Reformed Scholasticism
Articles
Willen, Diane – ‘Thomas Gataker and the Use of Print in the English Godly Community’ Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 3 (September 2007), pp. 343-364
Goudriaan, Aza – ‘Athanasius in Reformed Protestantism: Some Aspects of Reception History (1527—1607)’ Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 90, No. 2/3, Athanasius of Alexandria New Perspectives on his Theology and Asceticism (2010), pp. 257-276
Faber, Riemer – ‘The “Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625)”: Aspects of Composition, Content, and Context’ Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 92, No. 4 (2012), pp. 499-501
Faber, Riemer – ‘Scholastic Continuities in the Reproduction of Classical Sources in the “Synopsis Purioris Theologiae”‘ Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 92, No. 4 (2012), pp. 561-579
Sinnema, Donald & Henk van den Belt – ‘The “Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625)” as a Disputation Cycle’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 92, no. 4 (2012), pp. 505-37
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Book
te Velde, Roelf Theodoor – Paths Beyond Tracing Out: the Connection of Method & Content in the Doctrine of God, Examined in Reformed Orthodoxy, Karl Barth, & the Utrecht School (Theological Univ. of Kampen, 2010)
Abstract: “The first part joins the revived interest in Reformed scholastic theology, and attempts to discover the inner dynamics of this allegedly dry and rigid, Aristotelian theology… In the third part, a first comprehensive description and analysis of the efforts of the so-called Utrecht School is provided. The final chapter draws some lines for developing a Reformed doctrine of God in the 21st century.”
Burton, Simon James Gowan – Hallowing of Logic: the Trinitarian method of Richard Baxter’s Methodus Theologiae (Univ. of Edinburgh, 2011)
Abstract: “…there have been no major studies of him with respect to the renewed paradigm of Protestant Scholasticism and none at all of his Methodus Theologiae (1681), which represents the fruit of a lifetime of theological reflection and study and which is arguably, in both scope and vision, one of the last great Summas of English scholastic divinity… Baxter‟s thought has pronounced Scotist and Nominalist accents. His Scotism in particular runs deep and has strong ties with his Trinitarian thought, which is especially significant in light of the recent increasingly vocal discussions of the Scotist character of Protestant Scholasticism.”
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Biographies
Articles
Sellin, Paul – ‘Puritan & Anglican: A Dutch Perspective’ Studies in Philology, vol. 65, no. 5 (Oct., 1968), pp. 804-15
This is about Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655).
Hofmeyr, J.W. – ‘Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life’ Acta Theologica, 2016, pp. 19-48, vol. 36, issue 2
Letham, Robert – ‘Amandus Polanus: A Neglected Theologian?’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 463-76
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Book
Coffey, John – John Goodwin & the Puritan Revolution (Boydell Press, 2006) 350 pp. ToC
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History / Personal / Identity
Muller, Johannes – Ch. 15, ‘Permeable Memories: Family History & the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century’ in eds. Kuijpers, Pollmann, Muller & van der Steen, Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013), pp. 283-96
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Anglicanism
Article
Shuger, Debora – ‘A Protesting Catholic Puritan in Elizabethan England’ Journal of British Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (Jul., 2009), pp. 587-630
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Book
Miller, Charles – Richard Hooker & the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of ‘Anglicanism’ (James Clarke & Co Ltd, 2013) 350 pp. ToC
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Pastoral
Articles
Winship, Michael P. – ‘Weak Christians, Backsliders & Carnal Gospelers: Assurance of Salvation & the Pastoral Origins of Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s’ Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 462-81
Pfister, Ulrich – ‘Pastors & Priests in the Early Modern Grisons [Switzerland]: Organized Profession or Side Activity’ Central European History, vol. 33, no. 1 (2000), pp. 41-65
O’Banion, Patrick – ‘Jerome Zanchi, the Application of Theology & the Rise of the English Practical Divinity Tradition’ Renaissance & Reformation, New Series, vol. 29, no. 2/3, Special issue, Early Modern God (Spring/Summer, 2005), pp. 97-120
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Books
Hildersham, Arthur
Roberts, S. Bryn – Puritanism & the Pursuit of Happiness: The Ministry & Theology of Ralph Venning, c.1621-1674 (Boydell Press, 2015) 224 pp.
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Missions
Article
Noorlander, D.L. – ‘”For the Maintenance of the True Religion”: Calvinism & the Directors of the Dutch West India Company’ The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 44, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 73-95
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Islam
Articles
Loop, Jan – ‘Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620—1667) & the “Historia Orientalis [History of the Orient]”‘ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 88, no. 2 (2008), pp. 169-203
“…Hottinger’s Historia Orientalis (1651, 2nd ed. 1660) is one of the most significant contributions to the history of Islam to have been published in the seventeenth century.”
Hamilton, Alastair – ”From a Closet at Utrecht’: Adriaan Reland & Islam’
Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 78, No. 2 (1998), pp. 243-50
Reland (1676-1718) was a professor of Oriental languages and sacred antiquities at Utrecht.
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Philosophy
Articles
Clark, R. Scott – ‘The Authority of Reason in the Later Reformation: Scholasticism in Caspar Olevian & Antoine de la Faye’ in eds. Carl Trueman & R. Scott Clark, Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment Pre Buy (Paternoster, 1999), p. 111 ff.
Sytsma, David S. – ‘Calvin, Daneau & “Physica Mosaica [Mosaic Physics]”: Neglected Continuities at the Origins of an Early Modern Tradition’ Church History & Religious Culture, vol. 95, no. 4 (2015), pp. 457-76
Mangold, Matthias – ‘Salomon van Til (1643—1713): His Appropriation of Cartesian Tenets in His Compendium of Natural Theology’ Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 94, No. 3 (2014), pp. 337-357
Rehnman, Sebastian – ‘Theistic Metaphysics and Biblical Exegesis: Francis Turretin on the Concept of God’ Religious Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 167-186
Gellera, Giovanni – ‘Reformed Scholasticism in 17th Century Scottish philosophy’ in Alexander Broadie, Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2020)
Gellera, Giovanni – ‘The Philosophy of Robert Forbes: A Scottish Scholastic Response to Cartesianism’ Journal of Scottish Philosophy 11(2) (Sept., 2013), pp. 191-211
Abstract: “In the second half of the seventeenth century, philosophy teaching in the Scottish universities gradually moved from scholasticism to Cartesianism. Robert Forbes, regent at Marischal College and King’s College, Aberdeen, was a strenuous opponent of Descartes. The analysis of the philosophy of Forbes and of his teacher Patrick Gordon sheds light on the relationship between Scottish Reformed scholasticism and the reception of Descartes in Scotland.”
Gellera, Giovanni – ‘Natural Philosophy in Spanish Scholasticism’ in ed. Braun H.E., De Bom E., Companion to the Spanish Scholastics
Gellera, Giovanni – ‘Robertson’s Philosophical Theses (1596): between Late Renaissance & Early Modern Scholasticism’ eds. Alexander Broadie & J.S. Reid, Philosophical Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Key Texts (The Scottish History Society)
Levitin, Dmitri – ‘Rethinking English Physico-Theology: Samuel Parker’s “Tentamina de Deo [Trials respecting God]” (1665)’ Early Science & Medicine, vol. 19, no. 1 (2014), pp. 28-75
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Book
Woolford, Thomas – Natural Theology & Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance (Univ. of Cambridge, 2012)
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The Decline of Reformed Scholasticism
Articles
Krop, Henri Adrien – ‘”Fides et Ratio [Faith & Reason]”: An Early Enlightenment Defence of Non-confessional Religion by [Pierre] Poiret & his Circle’ Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 90, no. 1 (2010), pp. 47-67
Poiret (1646-1719) was a prominent 17th century French mystic and Christian philosopher.
Whelan, Ruth – ‘From Christian Apologetics to Enlightened Deism: The Case of Jacques Abbadie (1656-1727)’ The Modern Language Review, vol. 87, no. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 32-40
Hunter, Ian – ‘Christian Thomasius & the Desacralization of Philosophy’ Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 61, no. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 595-616
Calinger, Ronald – ‘The Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy: 1740-1759’ Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 30, no. 3 (Jul. – Sep., 1969), pp. 319-30
Hamilton, Alastair – ”From a Closet at Utrecht’: Adriaan Reland & Islam’
Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 78, No. 2 (1998), pp. 243-50
Reland (1676-1718) was a professor of Oriental languages and sacred antiquities at Utrecht.
van den Berg, J. – ‘Between Platonism & Enlightenment: Simon Patrick (1625-1707) & his Place in the Latitudinarian Movement’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 68, no. 2 (1988), pp. 164-79
van Eijnatten, Joris – ‘Gerard Noodt’s Standing in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Debates on Religious Freedom’ Dutch Review of Church History, vol. 79, no. 1 (1999), pp. 74-98
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Switzerland
Klauber, Martin – ‘Between Protestant Orthodoxy & Rationalism: Fundamental Articles in the Early Career of Jean LeClerc’ Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 54, no. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 611-36
Klauber, Martin – ‘Reason, Revelation & Cartesianism: Louis Tronchin & Enlightened Orthodoxy in Late Seventeenth-Century Geneva’ Church History, vol. 59, no. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 326-39
Klauber, Martin – ‘The Drive toward Protestant Union in Early Eighteenth-Century Geneva: Jean-Alphonse Turrettini on the “Fundamental Articles” of the Faith’ Church History, vol. 61, no. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 334-49
Sorkin, David – ‘Geneva’s “Enlightened Orthodoxy”: The Middle Way of Jacob Vernet (1698-1789)’ Church History, vol. 74, no. 2 (Jun., 2005), pp. 286-305
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Books
Griesel, Abraham Jacobus – John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716): A Reassessment of his Location within the Later Stuart Church of England (Univ. of Cambridge, 2020)
Abstract: “Its central thesis is that, contrary to the claims of older scholarship, Edwards was not a marginalized figure in the Church of England on account of his ‘Calvinism’. Instead, this study demonstrates that Edwards was recognized in his own day and in the immediately following generations as one of the preeminent conforming divines of the period, and that his theological and polemical works, despite some Arminian opposition, enjoyed a very positive reception among significant segments of the established Church’s clergy, many of whom shared his Reformed doctrinal convictions. Finally, this study problematizes scholarly depictions of the later Stuart Church of England as having developed a fairly homogeneous ‘Anglican’ theological identity, and argues instead that the established Church in this period was rather variegated in terms of theological doctrine, churchmanship, and politics.”
Arnold, J.W. – The Reformed Theology of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) (Oxford Univ., 2010)
Abstract: “Benjamin Keach, the most prolific Particular Baptist theologian of the seventeenth century, described himself as a defender of ‘Reformed Orthodoxy’. Despite this self-identification, modern scholarship has largely relegated Keach to a self-educated dissenting pastor whose major achievement could be found in his controversial support of hymn singing… This work fills that void by reviewing Keach’s own understanding of the term ‘Reformed Orthodoxy’, reconstructing Keach’s connections both in the personal contacts available in dissenting London and Buckinghamshire and in the books at his disposal, examining the major aspects of his theology, and placing that theology within the spectrum of Reformed Orthodoxy.”
Whelan, Raymond M. – An Irish Scholastic?: the Public Identity of Archbishop William King (1650-1729) of Dublin (Univ. of Aberdeen, 2015)
Abstract: “This thesis will situate King ecclesiastically, politically and philosophically to illustrate his tripartite identity. It will also argue that King was a late Scholastic thinker and not an early enlightenment philosopher, as has been previously assumed. The main methodological element present in his work was Scholasticism and throughout the thesis this will be proven to be correct.”
Wolfe, Stephen Michael – John Witherspoon & Reformed Orthodoxy: Reason, Revelation, & the American Founding Masters thesis (LSU, 2016)
Abstract: “The dominant view in the literature is that Witherspoon’s view and use of natural theology, natural law, reason and philosophy indicate a compromise or inconsistency with his otherwise theological Reformed orthodoxy—a move towards a type of “enlightened orthodoxy” or “Christian rationalism.” After reviewing the primary and secondary sources, I contend that the literature is in need of significant correction. I provide here both a corrective and contribute to the literature by showing that Witherspoon’s thought on these subjects—which, broadly speaking, concerns the relationship of reason to revelation—is consistent with Reformed orthodoxy.”
Park, Hong-Gyu – Grace & Nature in the Theology of John Gill (1697-1771) (Univ. of Aberdeen, 2001)
The conclusion of this dissertation has since been challenged by Dr. Richard Muller, that Gill manifested a shift away from reformed scholasticism.
Abstract: “In this process, we seek to prove that Gill maintained the typical Reformed balance between the sovereign grace of God and human responsibility, or between grace and nature, throughout his whole theological system. Finally, it identifies Gill as a Reformed orthodox theologian rather than as a High or Hyper-Calvinist.”
Spaans, Joke & Jetze Touber – Enlightened Religion: From Confessional Churches to Polite Piety in the Dutch Republic (Brill, 2019) ToC
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“The mixture of those things by speech which by nature are divided, is the mother of all error. To take away therefore that error which confusion breeds, distinction is requisite. Rightly to distinguish is by conceit of mind to sever things different in nature, and to discern wherein they differ.”
Richard Hooker
Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie III.3.1
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