Lucy R. Nicholas

Roger Ascham's Themata Theologica (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Roger Ascham is often classified as 'a great mid-Tudor humanist' and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster and Toxophilus, have been extensively quarried and anthologised in studies on prose style and English humanism. By contrast, his Neo-Latin works that engaged with theology and key Reformation concerns have languished in the shadows of modern scholarship. Ascham's Themata Theologica ('Theological Topics') is one of these, and its content has the potential to open up many an investigative avenue into the intellectual and religious culture of the sixteenth century. This is the first volume to offer a corresponding English translation.

The Themata can be dated to the early to mid- 1540s, and was composed by Ascham while still at Cambridge University and serving as a senior fellow at St John's College. The work mainly comprises a compendium of relatively short commentaries on Scriptural verses (both Old and New Testament), many of which developed into expositions on difficult philosophical concepts, such as the notion of felix culpa (literally, 'happy fault') and some of the most intractable theological questions of the day, including the nature of sin, adiaphora ('matters of indifference'), justification and free will. This little-known text offers a rare opportunity to trace the course of Ascham's own religious maturation, but also offers fresh insights into the confessional climate at Cambridge University during one of the most turbulent periods of the Reformation in England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350267954
• Artikelnr.: 68402937

Autorenporträt

Lucy Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King's College London and University College London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More and Walter Haddon. She co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016). She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction (1) Roger Ascham,
the Themata Theologica, its formation and composition (2) The Bible and
Patristics (3) Doctrine and confessionalism (4) Humanist classical theology
(5) Ascham as Theologian Conclusion Text, Translation and Notes
Bibliography Index of biblical and patristic citations Index of classical
citations Main Index