385. I Too Can Ask Questions: Protestant Scholasticism

In a surprise twist, some Protestant thinkers embrace the methods of scholasticism, and even find something to admire in the work of Catholic authors like Aquinas.

• P. Matheson (trans.), Argula von Grumbach: A Woman’s Voice in the Reformation (Edinburgh: 1995).

• J.C. McLelland (trans.), Peter Martyr Vermigli: Philosophical Works (Kirksville: 1996).

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• C.J. Burchill, “Girolamo Zanchi: Portrait of a Reformed Theologian and His Work,” Sixteenth Century Journal 15 (1984), 185-207.

• J.P. Donnelly, “Italian Influences on the Development of Calvinist Scholasticism,” Sixteenth Century Journal 7 (1976), 81-101.

• J.P. Donnelly, “Calvinist Thomism,” Viator 7 (1976), 441-55.

• J.S. Freedman, “Aristotle and the Content of Philosophy Instruction at Central European Schools and Universities during the Reformation Era (1500–1650),” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 137 (1993), 213–53.

• J.S. Freedman, “The Career and Writings of Bartholomew Keckermann (d. 1609),” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 141 (1997), 305-64.

• T. Kirby, E. Campi, and F.A. James (eds), A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli (Leiden: 2009).

• J. Mallinson, Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza (1519–1605) (Oxford: 2003).

• Manfred Svensson, The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics (Oxford: 2024).

• D.S. Systma, “Sixteenth-Century Reformed Reception of Aquinas,” in M. Levering and M. Plested (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas (Oxford: 2021), 121-43.

• C.R. Trueman and R.S. Clark (eds.), Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment (Carlisle: 1999).

• W.J. van Asselt and E. Dekker (eds), Reformation and Scholasticism: an Ecumenical Enterprise (Grand Rapids: 2001).

• J. Zovko, “Die Bibelinterpretation bei Flacius (1520-1575) und ihre Bedeutung fiir die moderne Hermeneutik,” Theologische Literaturzeitung 132 (2007), 1169-80.