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Subsections
Reformed vs. Aquinas
Aquinas through Church History
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Order of Contents
Articles 5
Book 1
Quotes 3
Historical 1
Latin 5
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Articles
1600’s
Baron, Robert – 26. ‘Theology in the third way, i.e. scholastic theology, is a habit aggregated from faith and the philosophical disciplines’ in Philosophy, the Handmaiden of Theology: a Pious & Sober Explanation of Philosophical Questions that Frequently occur in Theological Disputations 2nd ed. trans. AI (1621; Robinson & Davis, 1658), 3rd Exercise, Faith, Knowledge & Opinion, pp. 135-36 Latin
Baron (c.1596-1639) was a Scottish minister, theologian and one of the Aberdeen doctors.
Voetius, Gisbert – ‘On Scholastic Theology’
Partial
‘On the Problems with Scholastic Theology’ trans. Charles Johnson (d. 1676; 2023) from Selectarum disputationum theologicarum, pars 1, ‘De theologia scholastica,’ theses 7-9, pp. 21-26
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‘On Scholastic Theology’, pp. 41-56 in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 1, pt. 1 tr. by AI by Onku (Utrecht: Johannes a Waesberg, 1648) Latin
Heidegger, Johann H. – ‘On Scholastic Theology’ (1671) in Various Disputations tr. by AI by Onku (d. 1698), pp. 15-40 Latin
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1700’s
De Moor, Bernard – vol. 1, Concerning the Word & Definition of Theology in Continuous Commentary on Johannes Marckius’ Didactico-Elenctic Compendium of Christian Theology Buy (Culpeper, VA: L&G Translation Center (Edification Press), 2014) 262 pp.
25. Doctrinal: Didactic, Elenctic & Scholastic Theology
26. Papal Scholastic Theology
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31. Papal Divisions of Revealed Theology
Venema, Herman – pp. 7-8 in Translation of Hermann Venema’s inedited Institutes of Theology tr. Alexander W. Brown (d. 1787; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1850), ch. 1, ‘Of Theology in General’
Venema (1697-1787) was a professor at Franeker. Venema “maintained the fundamental line of confessional orthodoxy without drawing heavily on any of the newer philosophies… and maintained a fairly centrist Reformed position. Venema… evidence[s] the inroads of a rationalistic model…” – Richard Muller
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1800’s
Cunningham, William – ch. 14, ‘Scholastic Theology’ in Historical Theology (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1864), vol. 1, pp. 413-25
Cunningham is a safe guide on this subject.
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Book
1800’s
Hampden – The Scholastic Philosophy, considered in Relation to Christian Theology… in The Bampton Lectures (Oxford: Collingwood, 1832) 540 pp. ToC
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Quotes
Order of
Baron
Luthard
Burman
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1600’s
Robert Baron
Philosophy, the Handmaiden of Theology 2nd ed. trans. AI (1621; Robinson & Davis, 1658), 3rd Exercise, art. 7, p. 91 Latin
“1. Theology is usually divided into the Theology of the Laity and the Theology of the Doctors, which they call argumentative and Scholastic.
The former is a bare knowledge of the credibilia (as they call them) necessary for salvation. The latter is not a bare knowledge of the credibilia, but is the faculty by which we are able to explain, defend, and confirm the articles of faith, and to instruct others concerning their truth.
2. Argumentative or Scholastic Theology is said to exceed the Theology of the Laity in a twofold respect: first, because it extends itself to more credibilia; for learned men in spiritual matters understand more than the Laity and the simple. Secondly, because it is able to explain to others those things which are to be believed, and to defend and confirm them against Atheists, Jews, Mohammedans, and Pagans.”
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Christoph Luthard
Theological Disputation on Original Sin (Bern: Fabricius, 1637), p. 2 Lüthardt (1590-1663) was a Swiss reformed professor of philosophy and theology at Bern.
“Thesis 2. Lest, however, our disputation be forced to wander and err, I will do that which I think ought to be done at the beginning, middle, and end of all disputations: that first, what it is that is being disputed should be defined; then, the common affections should be subjected to the definition; and finally, a division into parts and species should follow. And so our disputation on original sin will present: 1. its Definition, 2. its common Affections, 3. its Distribution.”
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Francis Burman
Synopsis of Theology (Utrecht: Noenardus, 1671), vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2, section 47, p. 12 trans. T. Fentiman
“In this scholastic theology is to be praised:
1. the simple and concise kind of language;
2. the accurate and dialectical method;
3. the use or support of philosophy and natural disciplines.
They are to be blamed, however, out of themselves, even the defenders of it, by:
1. the obnoxious doctrine of the papacy unto tyranny; and hence it is false in many ways;
2. the multitude of philosophical things;
3. the curiosity of vain inquiries [or topics];
4. the confusion itself of things, arising out of an ignorance of languages;
5. obscurity and barbarities.”
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Historical
On the Reformed in the Post-Reformation
Article
Muller, Richard – 4.2, ”Scholastic Method’ in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries’ ToC in Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1 2nd ed. (Baker Books, 2003), pp. 189-209
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On Baxter
Simon J.G. Burton, The Hallowing of Logic, p. 2
“Richard Baxter, by common consent, was the most scholastic of all the Puritans and his Methodus itself the Puritan Summa par excellence.”
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Martin, Matthew – Notes on bk. 4, ch. 20, ‘Of the Calling of Ministers to Scholastic Teaching’ in Summary Heads of Christian Doctrine (Heborne, 1603), p. 517
Martin (fl. 1603 ff.)
Voet, Gisbert
‘Natural [& Scholastic] Theology’ in A Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, ‘Of Theology’, 1st Section, ‘The Precognitions, End, Principle & Subject of Theology’, Tract 1, ‘Of the Precognitions & Principles of Theology’, I. ‘Of Theology’, ‘Controversies less principal, partly of more particulars…’, n.p.
2. ‘Of Scholastic Theology’ in Select Theological Disputations, part 1 (Utrecht: Joannes a Waesberg, 1648), pp. 12-29
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1700’s
Heidegger, Johann H.
‘Dissertation on Scholastic Theology’ (Zurich: Gessner, 1671)
section 31, ‘Of Scholastic Theology’ in The Marrow of Christian Theology (Zurich, 1713), place 1, ‘Of Theology in General’, p. 12
sections 59-65 in A Body of Christian Theology, vol. 1 (Tigur, 1700), place 1, ‘Of Theology in General’, pp. 18-20
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Related Pages
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