Beyond Dordt and de Auxiliis

The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37711-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 192, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Beyond Dordt and ‘De Auxiliis’ explores post-Reformation inter-confessional theological exchange on soteriological topics including predestination, grace, and free choice. These doctrines remained controversial within confessional traditions after the Reformation, as Dominicans and Jesuits and later Calvinists and Arminians argued about these critical issues in the Augustinian theological heritage. Some of those involved in condemning Arminianism at the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) were inspired by Dominican followers of Thomas Aquinas in Spain who had recently opposed the vigorous defense of free choice by Jesuit Molinists in the Congregatio de auxiliis (1598-1607). This volume, appearing on the 400th anniversary of the closing of the Synod of Dordt, brings together a group of scholars working in fields that only rarely speak to one another to address these theological debates that cross geographical and confessional boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ballor, Jordan

Gaetano, Matthew

Sytsma, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Augustinian Soteriology in the Context of the Congregatio De Auxiliis and the Synod of Dordt

Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew T. Gaetano, and David S. Sytsma

2 Calvin and Aquinas Reconsidered

Charles Raith ii

3 Domingo Bañez and His Dominican Predecessors: the “Dominican School” on the Threshold of the Controversy De Auxiliis

Stephen Gaetano

4 Spanish Thomists on the Need for Interior Grace in Acts of Faith

Thomas M. Osborne Jr

5 Predestined a Passible Redeemer: the Use of Scientia Media in Early Modern Christologies

Robert Trent Pomplun

6 Arminius’s “Conference” with Junius and the Protestant Reception of Molina’s Concordia

Richard A. Muller

7 ‘In the Footsteps of the Thomists’: an Analysis of Thomism in the Junius-Arminius Correspondence

Jordan J. Ballor

8 Scientia Media: the Protestant Reception of a Jesuit Idea

Keith D. Stanglin

9 Aquinas in Service of Dordt: John Davenant on Predestination, Grace, and Free Choice

David S. Sytsma

10 Samuel Ward and the Defense of Dordt in England

Stephen Hampton

11 Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Báñez, and Premotion after Descartes

Reginald M. Lynch, OP

12 ‘The World is Content With Words’: Jansenism Between Thomism and Calvinism

Eric J. DeMeuse

13 Defending Grace: References to Dominicans, Jesuits, and Jansenists in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Theology

Aza Goudriaan

14 Calvin against the Calvinists in Early Modern Thomism

Matthew T. Gaetano

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jordan J. Ballor, Dr. theol. (2012), University of Zurich, Ph.D. (2015), Calvin Theological Seminary, is senior research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty and associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, including Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism (Brill, 2013).

Matthew T. Gaetano, Ph.D. (2013), University of Pennsylvania, is associate professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan (USA). He specializes in early modern intellectual history and has published on figures including Francisco Suárez and Domingo de Soto.

David S. Sytsma, Ph.D. (2013), Princeton Theological Seminary, is associate professor at Tokyo Christian University and research curator of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research. He is the author of Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers (Oxford, 2018) and editor of Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism (Brill, 2013) and Matthew Hale - 'Of the Law of Nature' (CLP Academic, 2015).