The Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669)

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11998-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 100, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This volume deals with the Federal theology of Johannes Cocceius, who lived in the seventeenth century (1603-1669). German by birth, he taught at Bremen, Franeker and Leiden, where he was Professor of Theology (1650-1669). As foremost biblical interpreter he sought to formulate a Covenant theory which described all of human history by introducing the structure of consecutive covenants or foedera. The book poses a surprising alternative to the readings of earlier scholarship on Cocceius by its careful presentation of the pneumatological components of the doctrine of covenants. Cocceius' Federal theology was of considerable importance in the theological and political history of Europe and the United States and formes the framework for much of the Reformed theology in the past three centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asselt, Willem van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
A Brief Sketch of the Life of Cocceius in the Context of His Times

PART I. THE SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
1. A Survey of the Summa Doctrinae and the Summa Theologiae
2. The Sources of Knowledge
3. Philosophy and Theology
4. The Holy Scriptures

PART II. THE DOCTRINE OF GOD
5. The Structure of the Doctrine of God
6. The Arguments for the Existence of God
7. The Attributes of God
8. The Doctrine of the Trinity

PART III. GOD IN RELATION TO HISTORY
9. The Doctrine of the Decrees
10. The Doctrine of the Eternal Pact
11. The Doctrine of the Covenants
12. The Abrogations of the Covenant of Works

PART IV. RECONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION
13. Reconstruction
14. Evaluation

Appendices
Appendix I. The Origins of Federal Theology
Appendix II. The Auction Catalogue of Cocceius’ Library
Appendix III. Impact of Cocceius’ Federal Theology

Bibliography
Abbreviations
Indices
Index of Names
Index of Terms
Index of Places

Über Autor(innen)

Willem Jan van Asselt, Ph.D. (1988) in Theology, University of Utrecht is Associate Professor in the history of Reformed Theology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He published several articles and books on Cocceian theology and Protestant Scholasticism including Reformation and Scholasticism (Baker Bookhouse, 2000).