Aquinas Among the Protestants by Svensson, Manfred -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: The Reception, Critique, and Use of Aquinas in Protestant Thought

Protestant and/or Modern Critiques Changes in Contemporary Scholarship Aquinas in Protestant History References

Part I: The Protestant Reception of Aquinas

1 Deformation and Reformation

Early Protestant Narratives of Deformation and Reformation School Theology and the Early Reformers Protestantism and the Second Scholasticism Conclusion References

2 Thomas Aquinas and Reformed Biblical Interpretation

Whitaker’s Disputatio de Sacra Scriptura in the Reformed Tradition The Philological Weakness of Aquinas’s Exegesis Aquinas and the Authority of Scripture Aquinas and Hermeneutics Conclusion References

3 Jerome Zanchi’s Use of Thomas Aquinas

The Doctrine of God Methodology Natural Philosophy Concluding Remarks References

4 Richard Hooker and Thomas Aquinas on Defining Law

Divine Reason: The Original Source of Law Angelic Law and Natural Law Conclusion References

5 Johann Gerhard’s Reception of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogia Entis

Protestant Scholasticism and the Quest for Catholicity Gerhard’s Reception of Aquinas’s Analogia Entis Conclusion References

6 Doubting Reformational Anti‐Thomism

Jörg Baur and Ulrich Kühn Wolfhart Pannenberg Eberhard Jüngel References

Part II: Constructive Engagement

8 Philosophy Explored

Existence The Basis of Ethics Conclusion References

9 The Active and Contemplative Life

10 On Divine Naming

The Metaphysical Approach to Divine Naming The Personal Approach to Divine Naming Conclusion References

11 Nature and Grace

Aquinas on Natural Law and Natural Theology The Early Reformers: John Calvin Peter Martyr Vermigli The Reformed Orthodox The Seventeenth Century The Puritans Two Examples Outside the Mainstream The Theological World Today Conclusion References

12 Aquinas’s Doctrine of Justification and Infused Habits in Reformed Soteriology

Aquinas on Justification Luther’s Rejection of Habit Infused Habits in Reformed Theology Infused Habit and Sanctification Conclusion References

13 The Influence of Aquinas on Protestant Ethics

From the Reformation to the Enlightenment Lutherans The Reformed Tradition The Puritans Richard Hooker and Anglican Divines The Twentieth Century Revival of Thomism References

14 “Justice,” the “Common Good,” and the Scope of State Authority

Thomas A Protestant Interlocutor: Emil Brunner Conclusion References

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