On Scholastic Theology

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Order of Contents

Article  1
Quote  1
Historical  1
Latin  5

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Article

1600’s

Voetius, Gisbert – ‘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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Quote

1600’s

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

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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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.

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

On Reformed Orthodoxy & Reformed Scholasticism

Prolegomena to Theology

On Theology, or the Study of God

Of God, the Knowledge of God & of his Attributes

Reformed Systematic Theologies in Latin

Natural Theology

Biblical Theology

Historical Theology