Prof @TCU_jp. Director @PostRefDL. 📚on R. Baxter (OUP 2017); Beyond Dordt & De Auxiliis (Brill 2019). 16/17thC historian and lover of wisdom ✍️ now on ethics.
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19 Nov 2021
Little known fact that Protestants wrote over 50 commentaries and over 500 disputations on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. @SvenssonManfred and I are working on telling the story. A preview of some findings here: doi.org/10.20935/AL1650
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I’m very pleased and very excited to share that I’ve signed a contract with Davenant Press (of the Davenat Institute) to publish my translation of Philip Melanchthon’s A SUMMARY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Many thanks to Mark Hamilton, their Editor-in-Chief!
CC: @DavenantInst
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2 Aug 2024
ICYMI, I put up a new post on Luther and Aristotle yesterday at @AdFontesJournal.
CC: @SvenssonManfred; @SytsmaDavid; @scottrswain; @carringtonam; etc.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (2): Solomon as “Dr. Politics” adfontesjournal.com/ej-hutch…
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1 Nov 2022
“Let the Greek professor … explain some book of philosophy concerning morals. The book will be by Aristotle or Plato or Plutarch or some Christian philosopher.”
— 1559 statutes of the Geneva Academy
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17 May 2024
Publication day for “The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics”! @oupacademic t.ly/oLN08
A short 🧵on the content.
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25 Mar 2024
The Protestant Reformation did not abandon eudaimonist virtue ethics.
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18 Mar 2024
Delighted to share the cover of my forthcoming book, The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics.
To be published in two months by @OUPAcademic.
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15 Mar 2024
Now available, including contributions from @SytsmaDavid on Bavinck's Thomistic epistemology and Ted Van Raalte on Bavinck and natural law...
bavinckinstitute.org/five-st…
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@calvinseminary
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6 Nov 2023
On a break during a busy semester.
I’ll be back.
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4 Aug 2023
Calvin using categories of habit vs. substance with respect to grace: “so the change takes place in the habit, not in the substance.”
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3 Aug 2023
Happy to introduce Scotus to a broader audience at @aeonmag.
Also some thots here on univocity, voluntarism, and haecceity, of interest to those already acquainted with Scotus
aeon.co/essays/duns-scotus-w…
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1 Mar 2022
The phrase #SemperReformanda sounds traditional, but appears to have been little known before 1950. Google Books returns a few late 19th c. & early 20th c. hits, then some in works from Brunner and Barth starting in the 1940s. After that, usage of the phrase takes off.
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1 Aug 2023
Theological interpretation of Scripture in the 16th century 🧵
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Z. Ursinus teaches a hermeneutical circle with role for catechism & loci communes:
“For as catechetical doctrine and common places are taken out of Scripture, and are directed according to Scripture as the rule, so they again lead us, as it were, by the hand to Scripture.” /1
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The best books on Stoicism
recommended by Massimo Pigliucci
fivebooks.com/best-books/mas…
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31 Jul 2023
“...our faith is not against nature but only above it. Thus Thomas Aquinas wrote in Summa contra gentiles; thus Ramon Llull... [and] Philippe de Mornay...”
– Johann Heinrich Alsted (Methodus SS. Theologiae [1634], I.ii, canon 3)
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10 Dec 2021
Not well known that in Calvin's comm. on Seneca’s De clementia (1532), C. affirms key ideas from Aristotle’s ethics: happiness (eudaimonia), virtue as a habit, virtue as a mean, & distributive justice. See quotes in 🧵, & details in my article. #openaccess academia.edu/43830806/_John_…
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