Just ran across the commentaries of an early Protestant reformer, Andreas Hyperius (1511-1564), at the Herzog August Bibliothek - Wolfenbüttel. Hyperius was a professor of theology at Marburg and represented Bucer’s theology there. His two most well-known works are perhaps De recte formando theologiae studio, concerning the right study of theology and a homilectical piece on sermon formation, De formando concionandis sacris.

Right, (as you could tell if you read the last few posts) today I indulged myself in about 30 minutes of scanning through Google Books for a few things and here is what I have found on Henricus Alting, a professor at Heidelberg until its sack by the Roman Catholics in 1622 and then a professor at Groningen University:

•  Methodus theologicae didacticae (Lausanne, 1662) - this is also on Wes White’s Reformed Bibliography list here.
• Exegesis Logica et Theologica Augustanae Confessionis - Quite a little gem given that he deals with a harmony of the three confessions - Helvetic, Palatinate, Augustanae - Swiss, Heidelberg, and Augsburg confessions. 
• Scriptorum Theologicorum Heidelbergensium Tomus Primus continens Locos Communes, cum Didacticos, tum Elenchticos (Amstelodami: Jansson, 1646) - If the previous one was a little gem, this one is Alting’s crown jewels of 700 pages of Reformed theology. The printer was responsible for publishing editions of the works of Williams Ames as well as an edition or two of the Tremellius-Junius/Beza Bible (which stayed in print from 1581 through the 1740s). I hope Google does the other 2 volumes (… sigh)

All in all these three make a good addition to your Latin digital library of Reformed theology.

After finding Gratian’s Decretals cited frequently in Musculus recently, I also ran across a more recent commentary on the Iuris Canonici - Canon Law here.

Found this the other day while poking about for other “distinction” and “definition” books of theology besides Alsted. This particular piece largely deals with scholastic theological and philosophical distinctions found in Roman Catholic theology, especially the Medieval and patristic period. Not a bad resource to have around. It is totally in Latin.

Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638) not only wrote an early-modern encyclopedia (containing over 500 authors and their topics), but also worked out a curriculum for teaching students Theology, Philosophy, and languages such as Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as well as other topics (Law & Medicine for example). What’s more, he has a noteworthy structure and interlocking categories of theology that function rather harmoniously. He also  (more…)

Theodore Beze compiled a list of people that he thought were most influential for the Protestant Reformation. He then wrote a brief description of them and called the Latin edition Icones and the French version Les Vrais Pourtraits. If you click on the image of the title page to the left, you will be redirected to a photo gallery of 49 images from the 1581 edition of Les Vrais Pourtraits. Enjoy!(This gallery requires flashplayer as well as a high speed internet connection)

Musculus who? Gratian’s what? Right, two sources probably not in your daily conversation. But if you are interested in connections between Reformed exegesis and ethical formulations and medieval precursors, this is a brief blurb on some prima facie evidence I ran across recently.  (more…)

Have you ever wanted the “spy movie” capability of taking good quality pictures from tiny microfiche images? No, this isn’t a post on espionage, but with the ability of many current SLR camera systems coupled with the right lens, it is quite possible with a trip to the local camera shop to purchase a system that can do just that. If you don’t need to take a massive amount of pictures of microfiche then the rest of this post may not interest you. However, if you are a graduate student who needs  (more…)

I thought I would pass this on. Click on the picture on the left to view the pamphlet for the new  Classic Reformed Theology series through Reformation Heritage Books.