Christian humanism : essays in honour of Arjo Vanderjagt / edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, and Jan R. Veenstra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair A.)

Martels, Z. R. W. M. von.

Veenstra, Jan R., 1965-

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 142.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 142

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Humanism.

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 494 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits (1 color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English and German.

Summary:

It is a misconception that Christianity and Humanism are in any way in conflict with each other. The present book shows that through many centuries, and especially in the Renaissance, the two stood in a relation that was mutually complementary. The contributions in this volume treat aspects and manifestations of this cultural symbiosis, and they throw new light on authors and texts both more and less familiar. The subject-areas discussed include: religion, history, philosophy, literature and education. The age of Renaissance and Reformation is the central focus, but earlier and later periods are also featured.

The contributions comprise a Festschrift for Professor Arjo Vanderjagt, whose work deals centrally with both Christianity and Humanism.

Contributors are Fokke Akkernab, Istvǹ P. Bejczy, Alexander Broadie, Christoph Burger, Marcia L. Colish, Albrecht Diem, Stephen Gersh, Berndt Hamm, Volker Honemann, Adrie van der Lann, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Peter Mack, Zweder von Martels, Matthieu van der Meer, Hans Mooij, Simone Mooij-Valk, Just Niemeijer, John North, Willemien Otten, Jan Papy, Detlev Pätzold, Rob Pauls, Marc van der Poel, Burcht Pranger, Peter Raedts, Han van Ruler, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Ron Witt.

Contents:

Christianity and Humanism

Coluccio Salutati in the Footsteps of the Ancients / Ron Witt 3

Christlicher Humanismus und Liturgie: Heinrich Bebel, Johannes Casselius und Leonhard Clemens verfassen Offizien zu den Festen des heiligen Hieronymus und der heiligen Anna / Volker Honemann 13

Ruhmende Memoria: der Zusammenhang von Verdiesseitigung und Religiositat in der Gedachtnispflege der Humanisten / Berndt Hamm 41

Religion as exercitatio mentis: a Case for Theology as a Humanist Discipline / Willemien Otten 59

A Classicising Friar at Work: John of Wales' Breviloquium de virtutibus / Albrecht Diem 75

Humanism and Stoicism

Virtue as an End in Itself: the Medieval Unease with a Stoic Idea / Istvǹ P. Bejczy 105

Florentius Volusenus and Tranquillity of Mind: Some Applications of an Ancient Ideal / Alasdair A. Macdonald 119

The First Christian Defender of Stoic Virtue? Justus Lipsius and Cicero's Paradoxa stoicorum / Jan Papy 139

Coornhert on Virtue and Nobility / Hans, Simone Mooij-Valk 155

Humanism and Philosophy

The De veritate fidei christianae of Juan Luis Vives / Marcia L. Colish 173

Montaigne and Christian Humanism / Peter Mack 199

Humanism and Religion in the Works of Spinoza / Fokke Akkerman 211

Erasmus of Rotterdam and Late Medieval Theologians on the Doctrine of Grace / Christoph Burger 225

The philosophia Christi, its Echoes and its Repercussions on Virtue and Nobility / Han Van Ruler 235

Modern Humanism as Philosophical Autobiography: Pretending and Understanding Selfhood in Descartes and Fichte / Detlev Pätzold 265

Humanism, Arts and Sciences

Types of Inconsistency in the Astrology of Ficino and Others / John North† 281

The Metaphysical Unity of Music, Motion, and Time in Augustine's De musica / Stephen Gersh 303

World Without End: Nicholas of Cusa's View of Time and Eternity / Matthieu van der Meer 317

Copernicus' Praefatio in libros revolutionum: Humanism and Scholarly Debate / Marc van der Poel 339

Jacques Lefevre d'ťaples: Humanism and Hermeticism in the De magia naturali / Jan R. Veenstra 353

Humanist Writing and Education

Dutch Humanists and the Medieval Past / Peter Raedts 365

"Hohere Bildung" im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Schola Carolina in Osnabruck auf dem Weg vom Humanistischen Gymnasium zur Jesuitenuniversitat / Rudolf Suntrup 379

Ubbo Emmius, the Eternal edict and the Academy of Groningen / Zweder von Martels 399

John Mair's Dialogus de materia theologo tractanda: Introduction, Text and Translation / Alexander Broadie 419

Rudolph Agricola's Address to Innocent VIII / Adrie van der Laan 431

Solitude and the Inaccessible Light in the Sermons of Isaac of Stella / Just Niemeijer 445

Anselm, Calvin, and the Absent Bible / Burcht Pranger 457

The World as Sin and Grace: The Theology of Melanchthon's Loci communes of 1521 / Rob Pauls 469.

Notes:

"A. J. Vanderjagt: Publications (to November 2008)": p. [xxiii]-xxxi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004176317

9004176314

OCLC:

301948237