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• Published in: The Historical journal Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 761 - 765
• Main Author: VAN DIXHOORN, CHAD B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.09.2007
• Subjects: 17th century; Bibliographic literature; Diachronic analysis; Dogmatism; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Historians; History; Medieval period; Middle Ages; Philosophers; Philosophy; Religious orthodoxy; Theologians; Theology; Writers
• ISSN: 0018-246X; 1469-5103
• DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X07006346

[...]for many readers, a realistic approach to the set as a whole may be to read the first part of each volume and then plunder the remaining topical chapters by means of the table of contents and index. [...]Muller attempts to correct the perhaps still reigning historical paradigm that much of Protestant theology is shaped or even directed by one or two doctrines. [...]theologians have argued that the placement of a locus such as predestination in the chapter headings of an early modern text is a reliable indicator of the role of that doctrine in a theological system. [...]Muller also restates his understanding of 'scholasticism', 'orthodoxy', and the unhelpful tendency of theologians to disdain the medieval period and to paint philosophical details on to their picture of post-Reformation theology with too broad a brush.