Cicero in Heaven

Carl P.E. Springer, Ph.D. (1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Luther’s Aesop (Kirksville, 2011).

• PrefaceProlegomenaList of Abbreviations1 Cicero and Christian Latin Eloquence1 Non Hominis Nomen Sed Eloquentiae2 “Spoiling The Egyptians”3 Renaissance Humanism4 Reformation Latin2 “The Real German Cicero”1 “I Love Cicero”2 Optimus Philosophus3 Parrhesiastics3 Cicero and Wittenberg Education1 Humanist Educationand Cicero2 Luther’s Latin House of Learning3 Praeceptor Germaniae4 “Cicero Refused to Die”1 Johann Sturm and The Ratio Studiorum2 The Teacher of Modern Europe3 Bach, the Latin Teacher4 Cicero, Illinois5 Lutheranism and anti-Ciceronianism1 The Vernacular Reformation2 “One word of Paul’s likely has three ciceronian orations in it”3 Anti-Ciceronianism, Flacius, and Bengel4 Cicero in Hell5 Cicero Americanus and the American AdamEpilogueWorks Cited

“Finely tuned and sensitively presented insights like those in the author’s treatment of rhetorical elements in church music appear throughout the book. Its elegant prose is eminently readable; the wide variety of tidbits of information offered is pleasantly surprising as well as entertaining. As far as Luther is concerned, the book also dazzles with a copious selection of quotations which will be useful for the future researcher. The educated public as well as the specialist reader will find enlightenment and entertainment in this book.”Johann Ramminger, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.07.03.“learned and engaging”Neal Leroux, University of Minnesota. In: Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 231-233.