Valla-Style Determinism and the Intellectual Background of Luther's De servo arbitrio
This paper argues that the Renaissance philosopher Lorenzo Valla's De libero arbitrio (1439) appears to anticipate Luther's De servo arbitrio (1525) on several key issues. This thesis was defended in the 1940s by the well-known Renaissance scholar Charles Trinkaus, who expressed regret ove...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2015, Volume: 108, Issue: 3, Pages: 402-422 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Valla, Lorenzo 1407-1457, De libero arbitrio
/ Luther, Martin 1483-1546, De servo arbitrio
/ Determinism
/ Free will
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that the Renaissance philosopher Lorenzo Valla's De libero arbitrio (1439) appears to anticipate Luther's De servo arbitrio (1525) on several key issues. This thesis was defended in the 1940s by the well-known Renaissance scholar Charles Trinkaus, who expressed regret over the fact that modern interpreters of Valla's dialogue had failed to see its connection with the Reformation. As we shall see further on, however, Trinkaus's position does not seem to have had much impact on the subsequent literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816015000255 |