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David M. Whitford
Other affiliations: United Theological Seminary
Bio: David M. Whitford is an academic researcher from Baylor University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Erasmus+ & Tree (data structure). The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications receiving 127 citations. Previous affiliations of David M. Whitford include United Theological Seminary.
Topics: Erasmus+, Tree (data structure), Church history, Confession, Racism
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TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which Erasmus attempted to protect himself and his New Testament from heresy charges as he revised it for its second edition and offers a further contextualization for why those attempts failed.
Abstract: In 1516, Desiderius Erasmus published the first Greek New Testament. Almost immediately, it became embroiled in controversy and Erasmus was accused of heresy because of critical decisions he made about the text. The most controversial was his decision to not include 1John 5,7, the so-called Comma Johanneum, which was used as a defense of the Trinity. This essay examines the ways in which Erasmus attempted to protect himself and his New Testament from heresy charges as he revised it for its second edition. Then, it offers a further contextualization for why those attempts failed. Erasmus reinserted 1John 5,7 in his third edition.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Lorenzo Valla's Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine played a significant and too little-appreciated role in Luther's new stance toward the pope.
Abstract: In 1520, Martin Luther’s view of the papacy shifted dramatically and permanently. While the events of 1519 played a role in his evolving view of the papacy as the Antichrist forecast by St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians, those events alone cannot account for the suddenness and the totality of Luther’s change of opinion. This essay argues that Lorenzo Valla’s Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine played a significant and too-little-appreciated role in Luther’s new stance toward the papacy. This essay examines what it was about Valla’s Discourse that helped convince Luther that the pope was the Antichrist.
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10 Jul 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Declaration and Table of Table of Contents (table of contents) of the conference proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference on Artificial Intelligence (W3C).
Abstract: ........................................................................................................................................................ ii Declaration .................................................................................................................................................. iii Table of
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04 Feb 2008TL;DR: In the early modern Reformation, a number of basic Western laws on religious and political rights, social and confessional pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism, and more owe a great deal to this religious movement as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings were periodically challenged by major crises - the French Wars of Religion, Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, American colonization, and American Revolution. In each such crisis moment, a major Calvinist figure emerged - Theodore Beza, Johannes Althusius, John Milton, John Winthrop, John Adams, and others - who modernized Calvin's teachings and translated them into dramatic new legal and political reforms. This rendered early modern Calvinism one of the driving engines of Western constitutionalism. A number of basic Western laws on religious and political rights, social and confessional pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism, and more owe a great deal to this religious movement. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of history, law, religion, politics, ethics, human rights, and the Protestant Reformation.
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TL;DR: For 2010 the bibliography of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, essays, reviews, etc. as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: For 2010 the bibliography continues its customary coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, ...
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of subjecthood in early English Colonization, and the development of early colonial slavery and subjecthood during the English Revolution, 1641-1660 and 1715-1754.
Abstract: iii Acknowledgements v Introduction – Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Imperial Anglo-America 1 Chapter I – Colonial Slavery, Imperial Subjecthood: The Problem of Freedom in Early English Colonization, 1547-1641 30 Chapter II – "Publicke and Sublime Propriety": Slavery and Subjecthood in the Imperial English Revolution, 1641-1660 125 Chapter III – "A Terrible Master": Slavery and the Human Tragedy of the Stuart Counterrevolution, 1660-1687 195 Chapter IV – The Williamite Moment: Property Personhood, and the Transformation of Colonial Slavery, 1689-1714 272 Chapter V – “Britons Never Will be Slaves”: The Passions and the Interests of Late Colonial Slavery, 1715-1754 376 Chapter VI – “This Golden Act of Liberty”: Slavery, Personhood, and the Crisis of Empire, 1754-1783
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: A comparative examination of the different confessions' uses of the Magdalene tradition through the early modern period is presented in this article, with a focus on the role of women in the teaching of Protestant reformers.
Abstract: Scholarly surveys of the medieval Magdalene tend to conclude at the opening of the sixteenth century, dismissing any role she may have had in the teaching of Protestant reformers. Protestant and Catholic attitudes towards sanctity and sainthood have been the object of scholarly work, but my dissertation is the first comparative examination of the different confessions’ uses of the Magdalene tradition through the early modern period. Mary Magdalene was of one of several scriptural women to whom Protestants in Germany, France, Switzerland, and England referred in debating the legitimacy of female and lay preaching. Lutheran and Reformed pastors, Anabaptists, and Quakers all adapted the medieval Magdalene tradition to advance Evangelical theologies of the forgiveness of sins, the sacraments, and the priesthood of all believers. Early modern women also seized on these possibilities, claiming for themselves the Magdalene’s title as preacher and devoted disciple of the Word. The Catholic cult of the Magdalene shifted as well, serving the needs of the Catholic Reformation. In reaction to the Protestant specter of lay and female preaching, male authors in their sermons and devotional work set aside earlier descriptions of the Magdalene as “apostle to the apostles” and emphasized instead her identity as a penitent
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