Ramism and the Reformation of Method: The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

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Ramism and the Reformation of Method
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Introduction: The Franciscan Reformation of Method
	I.1. Augustinian and Franciscan Platonism
	I.2. Lullism
	I.3. Christian Humanism
	I.4. Reformed Scholasticism
	I.5. Ramist Itinerary
1. Divine Dialectic: Ramus, Method, and the Ascent to God
	1.1. Evangelical and Mystical Milieu
	1.2. Fabrist Formation
	1.3. Natural and Cusan Dialectic
	1.4. Mathematics, Dialectic, and the Mystical Ascent to God
	1.5. Rhetorical and Metaphysical Turn
	1.6. The Emerging Shape of Ramist Dialectic
2. Return to the Golden Age: Ramus and the Reform of Church and Society
	2.1. Reforming the University
	2.2. Mathematical and Evangelical Reform
	2.3. Return to the Golden Age
	2.4. Transforming Theological Method
3. Logics of Faith: Piscator, Herborn Ramism, and the Confessionalization of Method
	3.1. Ramism, Philippism, and Neo-​Platonism
	3.2. The Ambiguities of Philippo-​Ramism
	3.3. Olevian’s Ramism
	3.4. Olevian and the Birth of Federal Theology
	3.5. Olevian and the Founding of the Herborn Academy
	3.6. Piscator’s Ramist Conversion
	3.7. Piscator and the Reform of Ramism
	3.8. Logic, Exegesis, and Theology
	3.9. Herborn Ramism
4. Archetypal Reform: Richardson, Ames, and the Reduction of the Arts
	4.1. The Character of Cambridge Ramism
	4.2. Perkins’ Ramism
	4.3. Richardsonian Ramism
	4.4. Exemplarism and Encyclopaedism
	4.5. Archetype, Ectype, and the Logic of Scripture
	4.6. Counter-​Logic and Metaphysics
	4.7. Towards the Logic of Faith
	4.8. Living to God
5. Catholic Symphony: Scaliger, Polanus, and the Reconfiguring of Ramism
	5.1. Scaliger’s Franciscan Logic and Metaphysics
	5.2. Goclenius and Reformed Metaphysics
	5.3. Polanus’ Symphonic Method of Theology
	5.4. Szegedinus’ Trinitarian Method of Theology
	5.5. Trinitarian and Transcendental Turn
6. Christian Philosophy: Keckermann, Encyclopaedism, and the Return to Eden
	6.1. Keckermann and German Ramism
	6.2. Methodical Peripateticism
	6.3. Christian Philosophy
	6.4. Encyclopaedism and Eden
	6.5. Towards a Trinitarian Philosophy
	6.6. Therapeutic Theology and Architectonic Politics
7. Philosophical Panacea: Alsted, Lullism, and Trinitarian Encyclopaedism
	7.1. Between Ramism and Lullism
	7.2. The Quest for a Lullist Key
	7.3. Harmonic Philosophy and Mathesis Universalis
	7.4. Towards a Triune Universal Method
	7.5. Biblical Encyclopaedism
	7.6. Scriptural and Scotist Metaphysics
	7.7. Trinitarian and Apocalyptic Encyclopaedism
8. Universal Harmony: Bisterfeld, Immeation, and Mystical Transformation
	8.1. Bisterfeld’s Formation
	8.2. Trinitarian, Encyclopaedic, and Apocalyptic Reform
	8.3. Trinitarian and Transcendental Metaphysics
	8.4. Neo-​Platonic and Mathematical Logic
	8.5. Encyclopaedism, Meditation, and Ascent
	8.6. Scriptural Method and the Ars Concionandi
	8.7. Theological Logic
	8.8. Trinity, Symbiotics, and Society
9. Pansophia: Comenius and the Quest for Human Omniscience
	9.1. Ramist and Lullist Formation
	9.2. Baconian and Campanellan Influence
	9.3. Millennialism and the Rosicrucian Furore
	9.4. Augustinian and Franciscan Encyclopaedism
	9.5. Pansophia, Anti-​Socinianism, and the Coincidence of Opposites
	9.6. Mathesis Universalis
	9.7. Consultatio Catholica
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