Lindholm Jerome Zanchi (1516–90) and the Analysis of Reformed Scholastic Christology

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-647-55104-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 037, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Reformed Historical Theology

This is a study in the Christology of Jerome Zanchi (1516-90), a leading 16th century reformed scholastic theologian. The study as a whole is bound together by doctrinal topics, themes and trajectories important to the 16th century Christological debates as well as by philosophical issues and arguments.In the first chapter, Stefan Lindholm situates Zanchi in the contemporary research into reformed scholasticism. Lindholm gives an account of what he calls ‘analytic Christology’ and why it is relevant to the present study. In the second chapter, he contextualizes Zanchi’s Christology, historically and theologically. He discusses the sources and context of Zanchi’s Christology and characterize it as catholic, scholastic and reformed.In the second part, on the hypostatic union, Lindholm evaluates Zanchi’s view of the virgin birth – The process of hominization – in the third chapter. In the fourth chapter, he analyses Zanchi’s uses of the part-whole and soul-body similes for the hypostatic union. What emerges is a rather ambiguous view of the hypostatic union. At the end of this chapter, Lindholm offers further correctives to Zanchi’s assumed metaphysical framework in order to better accommodate the sort of claims Zanchi wants to make about the hypostatic union.The central theme in the debate between the Lutherans and the reformed theologians, the communication of properties, is treated in the third part. Chapter five deals with Zanchi’s controversy with Martin Chemnitz’ notion of the majestic genus (genus maiestaticum). In the sixth chapter Lindholm discusses the most heated issue in the debate about the communication of properties: ubiquity. He shows that Zanchi tends to argue against a sort of generalized version of ubiquity but it is not clear that Chemnitz actually ascribed to that position which weakens the force of Zanchi’s arguments. Finally, Lindholm looks at two scholastic arguments found in Chemnitz for multi-location and reconstruct a possible Zanchian response to them.In a postscript, Lindholm suggests some trajectories for future research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindholm, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Fundamentaltheologie, Dogmatik, Christologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Acknowledgements;6
5;Table of Contents;8
6;Body;10
7;Preface;10
8;Part I: Analysis and Reformed Scholastic Christology;14
8.1;Chapter One: Reformed Scholasticism and Analytic Christology;16
8.1.1;1.1 Introduction;16
8.1.2;1.2 Approaches to Reformed Scholasticism;16
8.1.3;1.3 Philosophical Issues in Christology;24
8.1.3.1;1.3.1 Analytic Christology and The Chalcedonian Tradition;25
8.1.3.2;1.3.2 Four Modes of Analysis;29
8.1.3.3;1.3.3 Which Philosophy?;31
8.2;Chapter Two: Zanchi's Christology in Context;38
8.2.1;2.1 Introduction;38
8.2.2;2.2 A Biographical Sketch;39
8.2.3;2.3 Zanchi's Christological Writings and Character;41
8.2.3.1;2.3.1 Sources and Context;41
8.2.3.2;2.3.2 The Contents, Style and Structure of De Incarnatione;45
8.2.4;2.4 The Character of Zanchi's Christology: Catholic, Scholastic and Reformed;49
9;Part II: The Hypostatic Union;58
9.1;Chapter Three: Virgin Birth and the Process of Hominization;60
9.1.1;3.1 Introduction;60
9.1.2;3.2 Zanchi on the Virgin Birth and the Problem of Instant Formation;62
9.1.3;3.3 Turretin on the Successive Formation of Christ's Body;66
9.1.4;3.4 A Revisionist Argument for Instant Hominization and Ensoulment;70
9.1.5;3.5 Assuming Body by Assuming Soul;72
9.2;Chapter Four: Similes for the Incarnation;78
9.2.1;4.1 Introduction;78
9.2.2;4.2 Patristic and Medieval Beginnings;80
9.2.3;4.3 Zanchi on Compositionalism;87
9.2.4;4.4 Some Suggestions for Compositionalists;100
9.2.4.1;4.4.1 On the Distinction between Artefacts and Substances;100
9.2.4.2;4.4.2 A Functionalist Account;103
9.2.4.3;4.4.3 Compositionalism Revised;106
10;Part III: Consequences of the Union;112
10.1;Chapter Five: Zanchi on the Tria Genera and the Non Capax;114
10.1.1;5.1 Introduction;114
10.1.2;5.2 Understanding the Tria Genera;115
10.1.3;5.3 Two Reformed Principles Revisited;125
10.1.3.1;5.3.1 The Extra Calvinisticum and the Non Capax;126
10.1.3.2;5.3.2 Simplicity-Composition as Explanation of the Non Capax;130
10.1.3.3;5.3.3 Calvin and the Non Capax;135
10.1.4;5.4 Does the Soul-Body Simile Support the Majestic Genus?;140
10.2;Chapter Six: Notions of Presence;150
10.2.1;6.1 Introduction;150
10.2.2;6.2 Place among Other Categories;151
10.2.3;6.3 Ubiquity;159
10.2.3.1;6.3.1 The Inseparability of the Union;160
10.2.3.2;6.3.2 Chemnitz on Ubiquity;165
10.2.4;6.4 Christology Provoking Cosmology;169
10.2.5;6.5 Two Chemnitzian Arguments;179
11;Concluding Remarks;186
12;Bibliography;190
12.1;Abbreviations of Works Frequently Cited;190
12.2;Primary Sources;190
12.3;Secondary Sources;192

Über Autor(innen)

Lindholm, Stefan
Dr. phil. Stefan Lindholm is an ordinand in the Lutheran Church in Sweden, editor for Theofilos at NLA University College, Norway, and has lectured at Linköping University and Johannelund Theological Seminary, Sweden.