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Abel-Rémusat, la langue mandchoue et la sinologie
No full textElliott Mark C. Abel-Rémusat, la langue mandchoue et la sinologie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 158e année, N. 2, 2014. pp. 973-993
Spiritual theology in Bruce, Howie, Johnston, Boyd, and Leighton
No full textThis chapter concerns itself with how Scottish Reformed theology could go in a different direction from that of the polemical and the systematic. The five theologians considered, namely Robert Bruce (1554–1631), Robert Howie (1565–1641), John Johnston (1565–1611), Robert Boyd (1578–1627), and Robert Leighton (1611–84), all evidence a firm knowledge of the latter and should not be seen as reacting against the theological mainstream, but rather as bringing Reformed theology into dialogue with principles and practices of the Christian life as well as biblical exegesis. Often writing and thinking in a way that shows ‘humanist’ training, they arrive at something that can best be called ‘Spiritual Theology’. In the course charted here, this grows from being located somewhere in the ‘background’ theological method to being foregrounded in the content. There are clear signs of strong continental influence, to a varying degree
Natural and revealed theology in Hill and Chalmers
No full textGeorge Hill (1750–1819), a member of the Whig establishment, Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews and long-time leader of the Moderate Party at the General Assembly expressed a cautious and conservative theology that was pragmatic and even progressive in its application. He stressed the applicative doctrines that had moral force, such as the Atonement, and if not determinist, then at least a monist vision of the universe. Hill’s most famous pupil, Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), for all his evangelical formation, from his time as Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews to his spell as Professor of Theology at Edinburgh University then the Free Church College after the Disruption of 1843, held to a solid baseline of a rational religion to which was added an emphasis on the doctrine of sin and a need to receive the atoning work of Christ by faith and to be sanctified. This was to be enabled by preaching to all, without expecting that all will react with sufficient personal faith for salvation. As with Hill, the Bible alone was the guide to truth
Political and ecclesial theology in the sixteenth century
No full textThis chapter reviews the humanist supplement to scholastic theology, concerned more with devotional and ethical matters than the metaphysics of doctrine, yet the former would include a keen defence of the orthodox Eucharistic doctrine as well as conciliar theology which allowed for a political theology that was at once quasi-democratic while respecting order and office. Although a scholastic by method, John Mair shows this training to be used for questions of devotion and authority. Coming from very different backgrounds, Quintin Kennedy and Ninian Winzet offer defence of the Old Faith that is detailed and coherent. The civil ‘republicanism’ of Buchanan and Knox was the occasion of a Reforming Catholicism remaining true to the old faith in these key areas
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