The work of Heiko Oberman in breaking down the conventional barriers between the medieval and the modern has been a starting point for scholars focused on a variety of philosophical and theological questions. In October 2000 a symposium was held to mark Prof. Oberman's 70th birthday at which it was intended to honour him with a review of the main themes of his scholarship.
The fields chosen for treatment were the theology of the Reformers, the Reformation itself, and the scholastic theology of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and leading scholars in the field were invited to present papers. Some chose to engage directly with specific aspects of his major preoccupations, while others presented current work that bore out his instincts as to fruitful directions for research. The essays from the symposium published as a tribute to his memory include papers by Peter Blickle, William J. Courtenay, Jane Dempsey Douglass, Berndt Hamm, Scott Hendrix, Nicolette Mout, Francis Oakley, Christopher Ocker, and Andrew Pettegree. G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes provides a life of Heiko Augustinus Oberman.
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Ph.D. (1968) in History, University of Chicago, is Peder Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published on the political and social history of Reformation Germany, including Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489 -1553) and the German Reformation at Strasbourg (1995).
Katherine G. Brady, MA (1961) in Religion, Columbia University, lives in Berkeley. She has edited original sources of the sixteenth century and is the co-editor of the Handbook of European History, 1400-1600 in 2 volumes (1994-95).
Susan G. Karant-Nunn, Ph.D. (1971) in History, lndiana University, is Director of the Division of Late Middle Ages and Reformation, University of Arizona. She has published on the social and cultural history of Reformation Germany, including The Reformation of Ritual: An lnterpretation of Early Modern Germany (1997).
James D. Tracy, Ph.D. (1967) in History, Princeton University, is the current holder of the Union Pacific Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. He has published on Erasmus, and on the political and fiscal history of the Low Countries, and is editor of The Journal of Early Modern History.
'The tone of the contributions is one of respectful and constructive engagement rather than adulation, and is a fitting celebration of the academic life of a remarkable scholar.'
Sachiko Kosukawa, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2005.
'The volume reaches the standards to which all Festschrifts aspire but few attain. It reflects coherence as each essay interacts creatively and insightfully with themes and issues handled by the one being honored. The quality of the contributions reflects the standards set by the honoree. The editors have done a magnificent job Brill has produced a handsome volume - one that Heiko Oberman would be pleased to peruse and admire.'
James A. De Jong, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
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Preface
Introduction
Papers from the Symposium on the Work of Heiko A. Oberman (October 13–15, 2000)
I. LUTHER AND CALVIN
1. “More Than a Prophet”: Martin Luther in the Work of Heiko Oberman, Scott Hendrix
2. An Opponent of the Devil and the Modern Age: Heiko Oberman’s View of Luther, Berndt Hamm
3. Pastor and Teacher of the Refugees: Calvin in the Work of Heiko A. Oberman, Jane Dempsey Douglass
II. REFORMATIONS
4. Religious Reform and Social Cohesion in Late Medieval Germany, Christopher Ocker
5. Tumultus rusticorum: A Nightmare of Art, Peter Blickle
6. Protestant Printing During the French Wars of Religion: The Lyon Press of Jean Saugrain, Andrew Pettegree
III. LATE MEDIEVAL AND YET MODERN: THE THEOLOGICAL TRADITION
7. Fruits of the Harvest, William J. Courtenay
8. Pia curiositas: Desiderius Erasmus and Heiko Augustinus Oberman Between Late Middle Ages and Reformation, Nicolette Mout
9. Christian virtuoso and Scholastic Tradition: Robert Boyle and the potentia dei absoluta et ordinata, Francis Oakley
Elenchus Benevolentium
The Life of Heiko Augustinus Oberman, 15 October 1930–22 April 2001, G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes
List of Contributors
Indices
Index of Persons
Index of Places
