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:

Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.

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

Subjects (All):

Humanism.

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (533 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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 Akkerman, István P. Bejczy, Alexander Broadie, Chris-toph Burger, Marcia L. Colish, Albrecht Diem, Stephen Gersh, Berndt Hamm, Volker Honemann, Adrie van der Laan, 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 Ronald Witt.

Contents:

Christianity and humanism. Coluccio Salutati in the footsteps of the ancients / Ron Witt

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

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

Religion as exercitatio mentis : a case for theology as a humanist discipline / Willemien Otten

A classicising friar at work : John of Wales' Breviloquium de virtutibus / Albrecht Diem

Humanism and stoicism. Virtue as an end in itself : the medieval unease with a stoic idea / Istvan P. Bejczy

Florentius Volusenus and tranquility of mind : some applications of an ancient ideal / Alasdair A. Macdonald

The first Christian defender of stoic virtue? : Justus Lipsius and Cicero's Paradoxa stoicorum / Jan Papy

Coornhert on virtue and nobility / Hans and Simone Mooij-Valk

Humanism and philosophy. The De veritate fidei christianae of Juan Luis Vives / Marcia L. Colish

Montaigne and Christian humanism / Peter Mack

Humanism and religion in the works of Spinoza / Fokke Akkerman

Erasmus of Rotterdam and late medieval theologians on the doctrine of grace / Christoph Burger

The philosophia Christi, its echoes and its repercussions on virtue and nobility / Han van Ruler

Modern humanism as philosophical autobiography : pretending and understanding selfhood in Descartes and Fichte / Detlev Patzold

Humanism, arts and sciences. Types of inconsistency in the astrology of Ficino and others / John North

The metaphysical unity of music, motion, and time in Augustine's De musica / Stephen Gersh

World without end : Nicholas of Cusa's view of time and eternity / Matthieu van der Meer

Copernicus' Praefatio in libros revolutionum : humanism and scholarly debate / Marc van der Poel

Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples : humanism and hermeticism in the De magia naturali / Jan R. Veenstra

Humanist writing and education. Dutch humanists and the medieval past / Peter Raedts

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

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

John Mair's Dialogus de materia theologo tractanda : introduction, text and translation / Alexander Broadie

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

Solitude and the inaccessible light in the sermons of Isaac of Stella / Just Niemeijer

Anselm, Calvin, and the absent Bible / Burcht Pranger

The world as sin and grace : the theology of Melanchthon's Loci communes of 1521 / Rob Pauls.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40144-0

9786612401442

90-474-2975-3

OCLC:

657527785

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004176317.i-499 DOI