In ipso enim vivimus, movemur, & sumus: sicut & quidam vestratum poetarum dixerunt, Nam huius progenies etiam sumus. (John Calvin’s translation of Acts 17:28)
For in him we live, move, and have our being; as certain of your poets have said, “For we also are his progeny.”
I have mentioned St. Paul’s Areopagus Address and Calvin’s commentary [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Jupiter Is God: Calvin on Aratus’s Notitia Dei
Posted in Bible, Doctrine of God, Epistemology, John Calvin, Natural Law, Philosophy, Philosophy/Theology, Reason/Revelation, Reformation, Theology, tagged Acts, Aratus, Paul, poetry on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Birth of Scholasticism in Renaissance Italy
Posted in History, Paul O. Kristeller, tagged humanism, Italy, Paul of Venice, Petrarch, renaissance, scholasticism on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the sake of brevity or simplicity, historians often speak of certain literary or cultural movements in broad terms such as “scholasticism” or “humanism” when in reality there was no single functioning entity to which those terms refer. Scholastics in Italy were not mirror images of those in the French schools. Kristeller focuses on the [...]
A Reformed Education in Renaissance England
Posted in Anglicanism, Education, History, Philosophy, Philosophy/Theology, Reason/Revelation, Uncategorized, tagged England, Oxford, zurich letter on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following letter is from a young Swiss student Conrad ab Ulmis, writing to one of his sponsors John Wolfius. At the time of this letter Martin Bucer had been dead one year, Bishop Cranmer was busy completing the first Prayer Book, and Peter Martyr was at Oxford lecturing on the Epistle to the Romans. [...]
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