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Michael Baumann, Petrus Martyr Vermigli in Zürich (1556-1562), 2016
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"Oswald Myconius: Briefwechsel 1515-15522: Eine Würdigung
No full textThis short article surveys the recently published correspondence of Oswald Myconius (in the form of detailed regestae) from 1515 to the year of his death in 1552, edited by Rainer Henrich. Like the publications of Amy Nelson Burnett of the last three decades, it offers a view of Myconius’ activities at the head of Basel’s Reformed church from 1532, that differs from the older Basel historiography which portrayed him chiefly as the faithful custodian of Oecolampadius’ theological heritage. Instead, like Burnett, it shows that it was Myconius rather than his successor Simon Sulzer, who brought Basel’s official theology of the eucharist in line with Martin Bucer’s attempt to find a compromise between the Lutheran and Reformed positions. At the same time, it goes beyond Burnett in offering more detail, and in demonstrating the complexity of the struggle with Basel’s city council during the late 1530’s and early 1540’s about controlling the local church, not least due to highlighting the depth of the conflict between Myconius and Karlstadt that was entangled with this struggle
Joachim von Watt (Vadian): Aequivoca nomina christiana ad religionem pertinentia
No full textThis paper presents a treatise of Joachim Vadian entitled "Aequivoca nomina christiana ad religionem pertinentia" (Christian terminology with equivocal meanings) which exists only in a handwritten version. Vadian’s undertaking was obviously influenced by Erasmus, who already criticized in his "Enchiridion militis Christiani" (1503) the fact that some theological terms or concepts were used wrongly in the course of time and gradually shifted towards other meanings no longer compatible with their original use in the New Testament and the Old Church. The manuscript as we know it today was expanded in the 1540s. Vadian may have been prompted to this work after having expanded and revised Christoph Schappeler’s treatise on Prayer in the early 1540s. Yet a close study of the "Aequivoca Nomina" also reveals that for some of the concepts he discussed Vadian used notes he had written in the 1520s and 1530s. Vadian’s interest in theology has long been known and reveals itself in his treatise on the Eucharist (1536) and in his polemical tracts against Kaspar von Schwenckfeld, in one of which the two natures of Christ (1540) were examined. It is now possible to state that Vadian was not only interested in theological matters, but that he also grappled with theological issues more than was previously assumed. Indeed, a study of the "Aequivoca Nomina" allows the conclusion that he read Peter Lombard, Gratian’s compilations of legal texts, the “Summa” of Thomas Aquinas, quite a large number of patristic sources and numerous writings of Erasmus (e.g. the "Paraphrases"), which he used without explicitly referring to their authors
"Summum Bonum" in the Zurich Reformation: Zwingli and Bullinger
No full textHuldrych Zwingli has been rashly criticized for his philosophical theology, manifest in works such as "De Providentia Dei", by those whose measure of what constituted the true Reformation was a strict Biblicism, and who viewed philosophical theology as a corrupt remnant from medieval scholasticism. Yet Zwingli deftly uses the concept with its doctrinal baggage in order to support a doctrine of God’s Providence and grace towards humanity. Ultimately the Reformer derives providence and predestination, indeed the whole salvific economy, from a philosophical concept of God as supreme power and as highest good. In his own time Zwingli’s successor, Heinrich Bullinger, had to defend Zwingli’s openness to classical philosophy and his acceptance of the pagan quest for truth. This concept of "Summum bonum" also occurs in Bullinger at key points, being not only understood as all-sufficiency but also related to the names of God and thus to the Divine self-revelation, indeed as a source of covenant history. This paper explores the roots of this concept and how it evolves into a salvation-historical and therefore biblical motif in the Zurich Reformation and thus its import for the understanding of God’s relation to the created order
