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John Calvin's Aristotelean Cosmology
Many of John Calvin’s references to Aristotelean cosmology occur during his later years, representing his mature theology. Christopher Kaiser has shown that Calvin viewed the universe through th… more →
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John Calvin's Aristotelean Cosmology
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Eric Parker wrote 2 months ago: Many of John Calvin’s references to Aristotelean cosmology occur during his later years, repre … more →
Plato's Theism and Martyr's Humanism
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Eric Parker wrote 5 months ago: The Medieval world knew Aristotle from the translations of Boethius and the Muslim commentators, all … more →
God Provides Knowledge: Heinrich Bullinger on Natural Law
Eric Parker wrote 6 months ago: Heinrich Bullinger, the Swiss successor of Zwingli, says that the natural law is an act of the consc … more →
Aristotle's Method as Promethean Fire: Melanchthon's Opinion
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Eric Parker wrote 6 months ago: The old view that the Renaissance humanists exchanged Aristotle for Plato in toto has been discredit … more →
On the Difference Between Philosophy and Theology from Philip Melanchthon's Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics
Eric Parker wrote 6 months ago: When Peter Martyr Vermigli gave his lectures on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to the students … more →
Vermigli on the Contemplative Life
Eric Parker wrote 6 months ago: The Reformers did not believe that true perfection, as it may be had in this life, comes by living t … more →
Paul, Plato, and Aristotle on the Lex Naturalis: The Interpretation of David Pareus
Eric Parker wrote 7 months ago: David Pareus (d. 1622) is one of those church reformers that most people have never heard of. In fac … more →
John Calvin on Man's Natural Desire to Know
Eric Parker wrote 8 months ago: Calvin says, as Aristotle and numerous others before him, that all men have a natural desire to know … more →
The Meaning of Aristotle's τἀγαθόν: The Benefit of a Humanist Ethos
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Eric Parker wrote 9 months ago: During the time of the Renaissance there was a debate between humanist moral theologians and those w … more →
The Natural Desire for the Vision of God and the Convergence of the Sciences
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Eric Parker wrote 9 months ago: After reading de Lubac and some of his critics I still think the best interpretation of Thomas … more →
Potential Being Actualized In Christ
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Parmenides argued that a particular being cannot become another particular being. For example air ca … more →
Something New Every Day: Did Aristotle Misrepresent Plato?
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: … the essence of Plato’s doctrine of Forms or Ideas is simply this: that the universal … more →
An Integration of Plato and Aristotle in Aquinas
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: According to the late Frederick Copleston one should not dispense of the philosophy of Plato in favo … more →
