Christian Humanism

Alasdair A. MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published widely on the literary culture of Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Zweder von Martels, Ph.D. (1989), University of Groningen, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Groningen. He has published on Travel Literature, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, and Humanist Scholarship.Jan R. Veenstra, Ph.D. (1997), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, is currently Lecturer in English at the University of Groningen. He has published in the areas of Literature, and Intellectual History.

• IntroductionNotes on ContributorsCHRISTIANITY AND HUMANISMColuccio Salutati in the Footsteps of the Ancients, Ron WittChristlicher Humanismus und Liturgie: Heinrich Bebel, Johannes Casselius und Leonhard Clemens verfassen Offizien zu den Festen des heiligen Hieronymus und der heiligen Anna, Volker HonemannRühmende Memoria: der Zusammenhang von Verdiesseitigung und Religiosität in der Gedächtnispflege der Humanisten, Berndt HammReligion as exercitatio mentis: a Case for Theology as a Humanist Discipline, Willemien OttenA Classicising Friar at Work: John of Wales’ Breviloquium de virtutibus, Albrecht DiemHUMANISM AND STOICISMVirtue as an End in Itself: the Medieval Unease with a Stoic Idea, István P. BejczyFlorentius Volusenus and Tranquillity of Mind: Some Applications of an Ancient Ideal, Alasdair A. MacdonaldThe First Christian Defender of Stoic Virtue? Justus Lipsius and Cicero’s Paradoxa stoicorum, Jan PapyCoornhert on Virtue and Nobility, Hans and Simone Mooij-ValkHUMANISM AND PHILOSOPHYThe De veritate fidei christianae of Juan Luis Vives, Marcia L. ColishMontaigne and Christian Humanism, Peter MackHumanism and Religion in the Works of Spinoza, Fokke AkkermanErasmus of Rotterdam and Late Medieval Theologians on the Doctrine of Grace, Christoph BurgerThe philosophia Christi, its Echoes and its Repercussions on Virtue and Nobility, Han van RulerModern Humanism as Philosophical Autobiography: Pretending and Under-standing Selfhood in Descartes and Fichte, Detlev PätzoldHUMANISM, ARTS AND SCIENCESTypes of Inconsistency in the Astrology of Ficino and Others, John North†The Metaphysical Unity of Music, Motion, and Time in Augustine’s De musica, Stephen GershWorld Without End: Nicholas of Cusa’s View of Time and Eternity, Matthieu van der MeerCopernicus’ Praefatio in libros revolutionum: Humanism and Scholarly Debate, Marc van der PoelJacques Lefèvre d’Étaples: Humanism and Hermeticism in the De magia naturali, Jan R. VeenstraHUMANIST WRITING AND EDUCATIONDutch Humanists and the Medieval Past, Peter Raedts“Höhere Bildung” im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Schola Carolina in Osnabrück auf dem Weg vom Humanistischen Gymnasium zur Jesuitenuniversität, Rudolf SuntrupUbbo Emmius, the Eternal edict and the Academy of Groningen, Zweder von MartelsJohn Mair’s Dialogus de materia theologo tractanda: Introduction, Text and Translation, Alexander BroadieRudolph Agricola’s Address to Innocent VIII, Adrie van der LaanSolitude and the Inaccessible Light in the Sermons of Isaac of Stella, Just NiemeijerAnselm, Calvin, and the Absent Bible, Burcht PrangerThe World as Sin and Grace: The Theology of Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521, Rob PaulsIndex

"A deeply rewarding exploration of Christian humanism that would be difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere [...] prodigious in both depth and breadth". Laurel Carrington, St. Olaf College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1.