Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era. By Susan E. Schreiner
Susan Schreiner’s monumental and yet engaging study explores approaches to, and questions about, certitude and certainty in the sixteenth century. Identifying certainty as one of the key issues—or perhaps the key issue—of the Reformation age, Schreiner’s is a study ‘not about theology but about the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 304-307 |
| Review of: | Are you alone wise? (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Methuen, Charlotte)
Are you alone wise? (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Methuen, Charlotte) |
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| Summary: | Susan Schreiner’s monumental and yet engaging study explores approaches to, and questions about, certitude and certainty in the sixteenth century. Identifying certainty as one of the key issues—or perhaps the key issue—of the Reformation age, Schreiner’s is a study ‘not about theology but about the way in which the concern with certitude determined the theology, polemics, and literature of the age’ (p. viii). Against scholars who see the seventeenth century as the era in which questions of certainty came to dominate intellectual discourse, Schreiner identifies the Reformation, and thus the sixteenth century, as the context within which these questions arose. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls152 |