Prof @TCU_jp. Director @PostRefDL. 📚on R. Baxter (OUP 2017); Beyond Dordt & De Auxiliis (Brill 2019). 16/17thC historian and lover of wisdom ✍️ now on ethics.
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Little known fact that Protestants wrote over 50 commentaries and over 500 disputations on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. @SvenssonManfred and I are working on telling the story. A preview of some findings here: doi.org/10.20935/AL1650
“In all its main expressions, Protestant moral philosophy continued to center on the development of the virtues, and Aristotle remained the preeminent philosopher for two centuries, with Protestants publishing dozens of commentaries on his Ethics and Politics.” @SvenssonManfred
Over at @provmagazine, I discuss the supraconfessional nature of Christian social thought throughout its modern history. I hope it prompts some reflection on how much common ground we tend to overlook.
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I’m very pleased and very excited to share that I’ve signed a contract with Davenant Press (of the Davenat Institute) to publish my translation of Philip Melanchthon’s A SUMMARY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Many thanks to Mark Hamilton, their Editor-in-Chief!
CC: @DavenantInst
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ICYMI, I put up a new post on Luther and Aristotle yesterday at @AdFontesJournal.
CC: @SvenssonManfred; @SytsmaDavid; @scottrswain; @carringtonam; etc.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (2): Solomon as “Dr. Politics” adfontesjournal.com/ej-hutch…
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“Let the Greek professor … explain some book of philosophy concerning morals. The book will be by Aristotle or Plato or Plutarch or some Christian philosopher.”
— 1559 statutes of the Geneva Academy
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Publication day for “The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics”! @oupacademic t.ly/oLN08
A short 🧵on the content.
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Delighted to share the cover of my forthcoming book, The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics.
To be published in two months by @OUPAcademic.
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Now available, including contributions from @SytsmaDavid on Bavinck's Thomistic epistemology and Ted Van Raalte on Bavinck and natural law...
bavinckinstitute.org/five-st…
@TheBavinckInst
@calvinseminary
Calvin using categories of habit vs. substance with respect to grace: “so the change takes place in the habit, not in the substance.”
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Happy to introduce Scotus to a broader audience at @aeonmag.
Also some thots here on univocity, voluntarism, and haecceity, of interest to those already acquainted with Scotus
aeon.co/essays/duns-scotus-w…
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The phrase #SemperReformanda sounds traditional, but appears to have been little known before 1950. Google Books returns a few late 19th c. & early 20th c. hits, then some in works from Brunner and Barth starting in the 1940s. After that, usage of the phrase takes off.
Theological interpretation of Scripture in the 16th century 🧵
The best books on Stoicism
recommended by Massimo Pigliucci
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“...our faith is not against nature but only above it. Thus Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa contra gentiles; thus Ramon Llull... [and] Philippe de Mornay...”
– Johann Heinrich Alsted (Methodus SS. Theologiae [1634], I.ii, canon 3)
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