{"title":"Teaching and Being Taught: Melanchthon's Editions of the Greek Fathers and His Early Theological Thinking.","authors":"Marta Quatrale","doi":"10.1353/jhi.2025.a959040","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first three years of Melanchthon's stay in Wittenberg (1518-1521) are marked by the \"hybrid\" nature of his figure. Until the publication of his Loci communes, he was enrolled as a theology student. Meanwhile, he worked as professor of ancient Greek. In these years, he also moved from an \"Erasmian\" to a \"Lutheran\" position. Did his relentless work on the Greek Fathers in a firmly Augustinian environment play a role in shaping Melanchthon's interpretation of Luther's standpoint? To what extent did this investigation affect the incipient theological thinking of the praeceptor Germaniae as we know it?</p>","PeriodicalId":47274,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","volume":"86 2","pages":"367-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2025.a959040","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The first three years of Melanchthon's stay in Wittenberg (1518-1521) are marked by the "hybrid" nature of his figure. Until the publication of his Loci communes, he was enrolled as a theology student. Meanwhile, he worked as professor of ancient Greek. In these years, he also moved from an "Erasmian" to a "Lutheran" position. Did his relentless work on the Greek Fathers in a firmly Augustinian environment play a role in shaping Melanchthon's interpretation of Luther's standpoint? To what extent did this investigation affect the incipient theological thinking of the praeceptor Germaniae as we know it?
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Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas has served as a medium for the publication of research in intellectual history that is of common interest to scholars and students in a wide range of fields. It is committed to encouraging diversity in regional coverage, chronological range, and methodological approaches. JHI defines intellectual history expansively and ecumenically, including the histories of philosophy, of literature and the arts, of the natural and social sciences, of religion, and of political thought. It also encourages scholarship at the intersections of cultural and intellectual history — for example, the history of the book and of visual culture.