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Rhetoric as Divine Art: A Reformed Notion

Posted in Education, Johann Sturm, Philosophy, Politics, Reformation, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

The lexicon is a deceptive source of information. It is incredibly useful but tends to commit one to bondage. For those who have attempted to learn one of the classical languages, the ultimate freedom comes in achieving the goal of breaking free of the lexicons and syntax books and reading the text with one’s own mind. [...]

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David Pareus de Creatione ex Nihilo

Posted in Cosmology, David Pareus, Doctrine of God, Medieval Authors, Nature/Supernatural, Neo-Platonism, Philosophy, Philosophy/Theology, Reformed Scholastics, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, tagged on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

David Pareus, German theologian of the 17th century, defined creation as did the scholastics before him. He says:
Definitur autem Creatio a theologis scholasticis, quod sit productio seu emanatio totius Entis a causa universali, quae est Deus. (Pareus, Theses de creatione rerum, XVIII)
But creation is defined by the scholastic theologians as, that which is a product [...]

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The Zwinglibibel: A Reformed use of Images

Posted in Aesthetics, Philosophy, Reformation, Religious Images, Theology, Ulrich Zwingli, tagged , , on September 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »

The Reformers were not iconoclasts simpliciter. Vermigli believed that images should be used for the education of the laity, the only exception being the use of images during the liturgy. Also, Peter Matheson notes that via a humanistic education that exalted the art of rhetoric, the Reformers learned to use the pen as a paint [...]

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Philosophy as Habitus

Posted in Epistemology, Ethics, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Philosophy, Philosophy/Theology, Reason/Revelation, Reformed Scholastics on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sed videtur definienda, ut sit, Habitus mentibus humanis a Deo cocessus, industria et exercitio auctus, quo comprehenduntur omnia quae sunt, qua certo & firma ratione comprehendi possunt, ut ad felicitatem homo perveniat. (Commentaria D. Petri Martyris Vermilii … in Primum librum Ethicorum Nicomachiorum Aristotelis)
So it appears that it [Philosophy] must be defined as a Habit [...]

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Zanchi on the Glory of Strasbourg the “Silver City”

Posted in Girolamo Zanchi, Reformed Scholastics, tagged , on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tamesti ego ex Italia, Optimi Argentoratenses, uosque;
Relinqui ornatissimi Auditores, in hanc amplissimam atque;
Ornatissimam, & cum bonarum literarum, virtutumque;
Omnium, tum praesertim Christianae religionis, & parentem & altricem & custodem conservatricemque;
Fidelissima urbem:
(Aristotelis De Naturali Auscultatione, sue de principiis cum Praefatione Doctoris Zanchi)
Although I am from Italy, I am from the Great Argentoratum [Strasbourg] also;
Of the remaining most [...]

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