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

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[Nagomirov]

Gavin Ortlund is a professor of historical theology, that is, he is a patrologist. He knows the Fathers and church history very well. At the same time, he is a Baptist pastor.

 

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[ViaCrucis]

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

 

[Nagomirov]

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

St. John of Damascus was a systematizer of the theology of the Fathers. In the Latin West, Thomas Aquinas was the systematizer, although he was more influenced by Augustine's theology. But if we are talking about Eastern Christianity, John of Damascus systematized the theology of the Fathers. Leontius of Byzantium (Greek: Λεόντιος, 485–543) was a Byzantine Christian monk and the author of an influential series of theological writings on sixth-century Christological controversies. Through the details of his life are scarce, he is considered by some a groundbreaking innovator in Christian theological reflection for having introduced Aristotelian theology. Origin and Jerome of Stridon were engaged in the same work as biblical scholars, they were engaged in textology.

 

[Nagomirov]

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

https://translated.turbopages.org/p...ttps/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Paul_Migne​

He'll be older than Shaffa.

https://translated.turbopages.org/p...s/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Photius)