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Zusatztext Muller begins this extraordinary book by doing something modern scholars too seldom do: he puts John Calvin and his thought back into their sixteenth-century historical context ... Muller shows how Calvin's view of faith was not radically different from that of medieval scholastics such as Thomas Aquinas. This buttresses Muller's assertion that many of Calvin's attacks were aimed not so much as scholastics as at theologians of Paris in his day ... stimulating and impressive analysis. Informationen zum Autor Richard Muller (Ph.D de Universidad de Duke) actualmente se desempeña como miembro principal del Instituto Junius para la Investigación de la Reforma Digital junto con su puesto como académico residente en el Seminario Teológico Reforma- do Puritano. Anteriormente ocupó cargos en el Seminario Teológico Calvin, como profesor de Teología Histórica PJ Zondervan (1992-2015), así como profesor de Teología Histórica en el Seminario Teológico Fuller (1980-1992). El Dr. Muller ha publicado muchos artículos importantes en revistas y libros sobre estudios de la Reforma y la Post-Reforma como Dogmática reformada posterior a la reforma: el surgimiento y desarrollo de la ortodoxia reformada, ca. 1520 a ca. 1725. Klappentext This book attempts to understand Calvin in his 16th-century context, with attention to continuities and discontinuities between his thought and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. Muller pays particular attention to the interplay between theological and philosophical themes common to Calvin and the medieval doctors, and to developments in rhetoric and method associated with humanism. Zusammenfassung This title looks at Calvin in his 16th-century context, dealing with the differences of his thought and his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. The author shows that Calvin's theology evidences the impact of humanist philology, patristics, rhetoric and that of medieval scholastic thought....
