The Reformation of Common Learning

The Reformation of Common Learning
Author: Howard Hotson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2021-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199553386

This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.

Commonplace Learning

Commonplace Learning
Author: Howard Hotson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0198174306

Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. This book, the first contextualized study of this rich tradition, has wide-ranging implications for the intellectual, cultural, and social histories not only of the Holy Roman Empire but also of the entire Protestant world in the crucial decades immediately preceding the advent of the "new philosophy" in the mid-seventeenth century.

Reformation and Education

Reformation and Education
Author: Simon J.G. Burton
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3647560553

Closely entwined with the educational revolution of early modernity, the Reformation transformed the pedagogical landscape and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Embracing a broad understanding of the Reformation this volume examines the confessional dynamics which shaped the educational transformations of early modernity, including Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists and Roman Catholics in its scope. Going beyond conventional emphases on the role of the printing press and theological education of clergy in university settings, it also explores the education of laity in academies, schools and the home in all manner of topics including theology, history, natural philosophy and ethics. More well-known figures like John Calvin and Philipp Melanchthon are examined alongside less-well known but important figures like Caspar Coolhaes and Lukas Osiander. Likewise, more prominent centres of reform including Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands are considered together with often overlooked locations like the Czech Republic and Denmark.

Ramism and the Reformation of Method

Ramism and the Reformation of Method
Author: Simon J. G. Burton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197516351

Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed Christianity and its development as a divine logic attuned to understanding both Scripture and the world. In doing so, it reveals how Ramists rejected the notion of a philosophy or worldview independent of God and sought to encompass everything under an overarching Christian philosophy indebted to Franciscan ideals. The supreme goal of the Ramists was the remaking of the world in the image of the Triune God.

The People's Book

The People's Book
Author: Jennifer Powell McNutt
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830891773

The Bible played a vital role in the lives, theology, and practice of the Protestant Reformers. These essays from the 2016 Wheaton Theology Conference bring together the reflections of church historians and theologians on the nature of the Bible as "the people's book," considering themes such as access to Scripture, the Bible's role in worship, and theological interpretation.