How to be Deep in History AND be a Protestant (w/ Dr. Gavin Ortlund)

ViaCrucis said:

The kind of rigorous study of the ancient fathers that we see today as fairly normative, namely Patristics, didn't really exist (at least in the West) until the Protestant Reformation. In a lot of ways Patristics, as a discipline of study, was invented by the Protestant Reformers, it was people like Luther and even Calvin who were largely influential in making Patristics a major form of study. This isn't to say people didn't read the fathers before the Reformation, because of course they did; but the kind of scholarly and academic rigor applied to the reading of the fathers in the West was a contribution of the Reformers; in part necessitated by the arguments and debates with Rome.

The earliest and most influential translations of the Fathers into English were done by Anglicans, like Hoole, Lightfoot, and Schaff.

-CryptoLutheran

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ViaCrucis said:

The kind of rigorous study of the ancient fathers that we see today as fairly normative, namely Patristics, didn't really exist (at least in the West) until the Protestant Reformation. In a lot of ways Patristics, as a discipline of study, was invented by the Protestant Reformers, it was people like Luther and even Calvin who were largely influential in making Patristics a major form of study. This isn't to say people didn't read the fathers before the Reformation, because of course they did; but the kind of scholarly and academic rigor applied to the reading of the fathers in the West was a contribution of the Reformers; in part necessitated by the arguments and debates with Rome.

The earliest and most influential translations of the Fathers into English were done by Anglicans, like Hoole, Lightfoot, and Schaff.

-CryptoLutheran

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