Athens and Wittenberg

James R. Kellerman teaches at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Canada. His main interests are Pauline Epistles, Synoptic Gospels, Plato, and Patristics. His publications include Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with Carl P.E. Springer (2014), and Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with E.J. Hutchinson and Joshua J. Hayes (2017).R. Alden Smith teaches at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His main interest is Latin poetry of the Augustan age. His book publications include Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (2017), co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (2018), co-authored with Lee Fratantuono, and a translation of The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicoletti (2020).Carl P.E. Springer holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Tennessee. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation (2018), and Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns (2013).

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsClassical Authors and WorksNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to ReformationJames Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. SpringerPart 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s TischredenR. Alden Smith2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites CatullusJohn G. Nordling3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin PoetryCarl P.E. Springer4 Luther between Stoics and EpicureansCarl P.E. Springer5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s TischredenR. Alden Smith6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg ThesesRichard J. Serina, Jr.7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance BolognaPiergiacomo PetrioliPart 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and MusicE. Christian Kopff9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor GentiumEric Phillips10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century GermanyJoseph Herl11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic MusicDaniel Zager12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1E.J. Hutchinson13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century ViennaJane Schatkin HettrickPart 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the ClassicsWilliam P. Weaver15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern MetaphysicsJack D. Kilcrease16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean EthicsManfred Svensson17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and LutherJohn G. NordlingBibliographyIndex