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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
...David Aers This essay argues that Calvinist versions of God and human redemption cannot be adequately grasped without studying the medieval traditions from which they emerged. Beginning with a close reading of Calvin's extremely violent understanding of the atonement, the essay moves through...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., the intercession of Christ,” as Calvin wrote. In its staging of a plot in which characters frequently depend on others to speak for them (most importantly Angelo for the Duke, and Isabella for Claudio), Measure for Measure explores the consequences of a theological insistence on speaking for oneself, while...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2016
... redefines the very term “Reformation” against confession—not with reference to Luther or Calvin but to Desiderius Erasmus, the irenicist hero of the History , for whom doctrine is remarkably simple, unchanging, and conducive to unity. Based on this account of minimal orthodoxy, Brandt introduces a striking...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... exposition in the third book of Calvin’s Institutes of
Perry and Westphall / Gathering Good Corn from the Weeds 315
the Christian Religion, is crucial to the annotator’s admiration for the Prick-
ynge. In chapter , Hilton’s understanding of the value of good works reso-
nates...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
... moderate , so frequently used of Anglican Calvinists and of the so-called via media of the Anglican Church itself, is in my view a strategy to disguise the fact that the English Church was doctrinally Calvinist, and that Calvinism cannot be “moderate.” For the nonmoderate Calvinism of the Tudor...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 559–592.
Published: 01 September 2010
... fate of the soul was vigorously
defended by William Tyndale in his debate with Thomas More.2 Yet mor-
talism became a significant feature of the continental “radical Reformation”
rather than of the Calvinist theology that shaped later-sixteenth-century
English Protestantism: Calvin...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 577–599.
Published: 01 September 2011
... as Catholics in order to avoid
persecution — and there were similar strategies of dissimulation among recu-
sant Catholics in Anglican England and among Moriscos or crypto-Muslims
in Christian Spain.4
“Nicodemites” was the name John Calvin gave to those Christians
who, having accepted...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 55–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... to blossom institutionally under the patronage of Archbishop William Laud. 11 The archbishop rejected the deferral of theological matters to modern reformers such as John Calvin, who incited sedition. Instead, Laud prioritized reading the ancients over the moderns. 12 Amassing a vast collection...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2023
... rivalry between the two leading statesmen of the Dutch States General, the Advocate of Holland Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and the Prince of Orange Maurice of Nassau, had morphed into a religious civil war. Maurice supported the majority party in the Dutch Reformed Church, which espoused a high Calvinism...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
...
like the character of God in an allegorical play. The Duke’s phrase “elected
him [i.e., Angelo] our absence to supply” evokes in its use of elect the Calvin-
ist language of predestination central to the theology of most nonconform-
ists and members of the church in Shakespeare’s time.50 The Duke...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 349–378.
Published: 01 May 2001
... contested point. Discipline is tra-
ditionally paired with doctrine in something like a means-to-an-end rela-
tionship. For Calvin, whose discussion of discipline in the Institutes is the
best-known Reformation statement on the topic, “the saving doctrine of
Christ...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 407–413.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the deletion of human agency in Calvin's account of the passion and crucifixion of Christ in the Institutes . He contrasts this with treatments in the York plays and in Piers Plowman , shows the implications of Calvin's atonement theory as it is taken up in the second generation of Calvinism, and reveals...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
...” to
and from God. Logically and metaphysically, the “principle of continuity”
is necessary to the “chain” conception.8 Soteriologically, Luther and Calvin
asserted a principle of discontinuity. By reviving in its strongest form the Pau-
line conception of sin, they placed an abyss, unbridgeable from...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by
late medieval Catholic theologians.
Here it is worth recalling John Calvin’s comments on Henry VIII, if
only to offer some checks to recent claims that the Reformation and its theo-
logians were totally committed to absolutist forms of centralized power.24
Commenting on the prophet Amos...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., as one
scholar has argued, the ideal relationship between secular and ecclesiastical
authorities laid out in John Calvin’s Institution chrétienne.33 But in practice,
such designs were utopian. France was not Geneva. Even after the procla-
mation of the Edict of Nantes, Catholic churches still...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
....”
But — and here, perhaps, is the most surprising misreading — the
door of the Temple appears nowhere in the text. Sola scriptura has been
entirely set aside, replaced by another mode of reading with very different
motives. The annotators here draw on a commentary on Isaiah by Calvin,
which had been...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 197–218.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... The Literature of
Early Modern Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. 118 pp. $39.95.
[A five-act verse tragedy or tragicomedy published in 1646.]
Calvin, Jean. Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition [Insti-
tution de la religion chrétienne]. Translated by Elsie Anne McKee. Grand...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
... posses-
sion, or simple fabrication Many reformers expressed a measured amount
of concern and caution regarding divine encounters, even biblical revelation.
When it came to expounding upon Ezekiel’s vision of heaven, John Calvin
admits to his reader, “I confess its obscurity, and that I can...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2021
... edessena , 398–400. 66 Calcagnino, Dell'imagine edessena , 381–97. For the fate of the Veronica, see André Chastel, The Sack of Rome, 1527 , trans. Beth Archer (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983), 100–105. 65 John Calvin, A Treatise on Relics , trans. Valerian Krasinski...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., and antinomianism; versions of God emerging in Calvin- ism with their ethical implications; the abolition of penance as a sacrament; the abolition of late medieval understandings of the Eucharist, that con- summation of the sacraments and virtues; the consequences of denigrations or adaptations of Thomistic ethics...
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