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Athens and Wittenberg

Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther's Legacy
Buch | Hardcover
310 Seiten
2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-20670-0 (ISBN)
132,68 inkl. MwSt
Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.
Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy’s role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity.



Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.

James R. Kellerman teaches at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Canada. His main interests are Pauline Epistles, Synoptic Gospels, Plato, and Patristics. His publications include Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with Carl P.E. Springer (2014), and Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with E.J. Hutchinson and Joshua J. Hayes (2017). R. Alden Smith teaches at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His main interest is Latin poetry of the Augustan age. His book publications include Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (2017), co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (2018), co-authored with Lee Fratantuono, and a translation of The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicoletti (2020). Carl P.E. Springer holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Tennessee. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation (2018), and Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns (2013).

Preface


List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Classical Authors and Works


Notes on Contributors





Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation


 James Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer





Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers


1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s Tischreden


 R. Alden Smith





2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus


 John G. Nordling





3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin Poetry


 Carl P.E. Springer





4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans


 Carl P.E. Springer





5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s Tischreden


 R. Alden Smith





6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses


 Richard J. Serina, Jr.





7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna


 Piergiacomo Petrioli





Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy


8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music


 E. Christian Kopff





9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium


 Eric Phillips





10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany


 Joseph Herl





11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music


 Daniel Zager





12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1


 E.J. Hutchinson





13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna


 Jane Schatkin Hettrick





Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry


14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics


 William P. Weaver





15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics


 Jack D. Kilcrease





16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics


 Manfred Svensson





17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther


 John G. Nordling





Bibliography


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 234
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 90-04-20670-1 / 9004206701
ISBN-13 978-90-04-20670-0 / 9789004206700
Zustand Neuware
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