David Pareusâs Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy

GÃ¡bor FÃ¶rkÃ¶li

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Chapter 14 David Pareusâs Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious Controversy

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In the early modern period printing university disputations had a mainly representative goal: to stress the candidateâs erudition and to praise the generosity of the patron who financed his studies. On the other hand, many professors published the theses of their students in a collective form, exceeding their original representative aims, and these theses were in turn probably used in education. This paper explores the two volumes of Collegia theologica (published in 1611 and 1620) of the famous irenic theologian from Heidelberg, David Pareus (1548â1622). Defended by Pareusâs German, Swiss, French, Polish and Hungarian students, these disputations are the documents of a seminary organised by Pareus to systematically refute the controversies that the Jesuit Roberto Bellarmino directed against Protestants.

The volumes contain an index of theological commonplaces whose organisation is based on the model of a typical protestant commonplace book fashioned by Melanchthon or Wolfgang Musculus. Reconstructing the context of irenic reconciliation among Protestant denominations in the Holy Roman Empire and of the Jesuit menace in East-Central Europe, this paper argues that the commonplace structure allows us to read Pareusâs disputations as media for introducing students to general theology and to anti-Jesuit controversy, rather than as documents of individual university studies.

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Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Series:Â Intersections, Volume: 71

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004436206

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 13 Nov 2020

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