Reformation and Education

Confessional Dynamics and Intellectual Transformations

Simon J.G. Burton, Matthew C. Baines, Simon J.G. Burton, Matthew C. Baines, Herman J. Selderhuis

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783525560556
• eBook ISBN: 9783647560557
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Closely entwined with the educational revolution of early modernity, the Reformation transformed the pedagogical landscape and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Embracing a broad understanding of the Reformation this volume examines the confessional dynamics which shaped the educational transformations of early modernity, including Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists and Roman Catholics in its scope. Going beyond conventional emphases on the role of the printing press and theological education of clergy in university settings, it also explores the education of laity in academies, schools and the home in all manner of topics including theology, history, natural philosophy and ethics. More well-known figures like John Calvin and Philipp Melanchthon are examined alongside less-well known but important figures like Caspar Coolhaes and Lukas Osiander. Likewise, more prominent centres of reform including Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands are considered together with often overlooked locations like the Czech Republic and Denmark.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Simon J.G. Burton, Matthew C. Baines | Reformation and Education. Confessional Dynamics and Intellectual Transformations
• Willem Frijhoff | Education High and Low as an Asset of the Roman Catholic Tradition. The Late Fifteenth Century to the Seventeenth Century
• Charlotte Appel | Books, Education, and the Contours of a Lutheran Reading Culture. Post-Reformation Denmark (c. 1530–1700)
• Balázs Dávid Magyar | Genevan Education for Good Morals. John Calvin’s Theological and Judicial Teachings on Fornication and Adultery
• Marta Quatrale | Educating the Lutheran Laity in “Right” Doctrine. Polemical and Philological Paths in the Reactions against the Dresden Consensus (1571)
• Lucie Storchová | Strategies for Adapting Knowledge. Melanchthon’s Natural Philosophy in the Czech Lands, 1540 to 1590
• Linda S. Gottschalk | “Christ the Rector”. Caspar Coolhaes’s Critique of Theological Education at the University of Leiden
• Thomas Klöckner | Teaching the Beginnings. Henricus Alting’s (1583–1644) Early Lecture on the History of Dogma
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Persons
• Index of Locations
• Body