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Athens and Wittenberg
Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther's Legacy
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 234
Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophyâs role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity.
Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.
Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.
James R. Kellerman teaches at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Canada. His main interests are Pauline Epistles, Synoptic Gospels, Plato, and Patristics. His publications include Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with Carl P.E. Springer (2014), and Ad fontes Witebergenses, co-edited with E.J. Hutchinson and Joshua J. Hayes (2017).
R. Alden Smith teaches at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His main interest is Latin poetry of the Augustan age. His book publications include Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (2017), co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (2018), co-authored with Lee Fratantuono, and a translation of The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the Worldâs Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicoletti (2020).
Carl P.E. Springer holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Tennessee. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Lutherâs Reformation (2018), and Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns (2013).
R. Alden Smith teaches at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His main interest is Latin poetry of the Augustan age. His book publications include Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (2017), co-authored with Jeffrey M. Hunt and Fabio Stok, Virgil, Aeneid 8: Text, Translation and Commentary (2018), co-authored with Lee Fratantuono, and a translation of The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the Worldâs Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicoletti (2020).
Carl P.E. Springer holds the SunTrust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Tennessee. He has written extensively on the relationship between Martin Luther and the Classics, including Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Lutherâs Reformation (2018), and Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns (2013).
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Classical Authors and Works
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation
âJames Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer
1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Lutherâs Tischreden
âR. Alden Smith
2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus
âJohn G. Nordling
3 âPious Mirthâ: Listening to Martin Lutherâs Latin Poetry
âCarl P.E. Springer
4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans
âCarl P.E. Springer
5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Lutherâs Tischreden
âR. Alden Smith
6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Lutherâs Heidelberg Theses
âRichard J. Serina, Jr.
7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna
âPiergiacomo Petrioli
8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music
âE. Christian Kopff
9 Collaboration over Time: Lutherâs Adaptation of Ambroseâs Veni Redemptor Gentium
âEric Phillips
10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany
âJoseph Herl
11 âExulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strainsâ: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music
âDaniel Zager
12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1
âE.J. Hutchinson
13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
âJane Schatkin Hettrick
14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics
âWilliam P. Weaver
15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics
âJack D. Kilcrease
16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
âManfred Svensson
17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther
âJohn G. Nordling
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Classical Authors and Works
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation
âJames Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer
Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers
1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Lutherâs Tischreden
âR. Alden Smith
2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus
âJohn G. Nordling
3 âPious Mirthâ: Listening to Martin Lutherâs Latin Poetry
âCarl P.E. Springer
4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans
âCarl P.E. Springer
5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Lutherâs Tischreden
âR. Alden Smith
6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Lutherâs Heidelberg Theses
âRichard J. Serina, Jr.
7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna
âPiergiacomo Petrioli
Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy
8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music
âE. Christian Kopff
9 Collaboration over Time: Lutherâs Adaptation of Ambroseâs Veni Redemptor Gentium
âEric Phillips
10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany
âJoseph Herl
11 âExulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strainsâ: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music
âDaniel Zager
12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1
âE.J. Hutchinson
13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
âJane Schatkin Hettrick
Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry
14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics
âWilliam P. Weaver
15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics
âJack D. Kilcrease
16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
âManfred Svensson
17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther
âJohn G. Nordling
Bibliography
Index
All interested in early Lutheranism, the classical tradition, early modern education, Augustan poetry, and classical and late medieval philosophy. Keywords: Aristotle, Catullus, Cicero, Epicureanism, hymnody, Latin liturgy, medieval disputation, Nominalism, Stoicism, Virgil.