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The Patristic Text in the Confessional Age (16th–17th Centuries)
Erudition, Theology, Censorship
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Jean-Louis Quantin
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
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This volume follows the paradoxical trajectory of patristic studies in early modern Europe, from their full confessionalization in the mid-sixteenth century to the emergence of ‘fringe patristics’ within minority groups in the early eighteenth century. The appeal to the Fathers, which was meant to buttress established orthodoxies, powerfully contributed to their dissolution in the internal strifes of seventeenth-century churches, especially on grace and predestination. An ample English introduction, with rich notes, surveys the flourishing field of patristic reception and advocates for a historical, rather than theological or literary, approach.
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Jean-Louis Quantin, Professor of the History of Scholarship at the École pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris), has published extensively, in English and French, on the reception of the Church Fathers in early modern Europe.
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December 16, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004689077
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658
eBook ISBN:
9789004689077
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Specialists and students in early modern religious history, history of scholarship, and patristic studies.
