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A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition A series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500–1700 VOLUME 16 Loci communes D. Petri Martyris Vermilii, Florentini, sacrarum literarum in schola Tigurina professoris: ex varijs ipsius authoris scriptis, in vnum librum collecti, & in quatuor classes distributi. London: Th omas Vautrollerius, 1583. A Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli Edited by Torrance Kirby, Emidio Campi, and Frank A. James III LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 Th is book is printed on acid-free paper. On the cover: ‘Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562)’ in Henry Holland. Herωologia Anglica: hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum. aliqout [sic] Anglorum, qui fl oruerunt ab anno Cristi. MD vsq[ue] ad presentem annum MDCXX viuæ effi gies vitæ et elogia: duobus tomis. Arnhem: Jan Jansson for Crispijn van de Passe, and London: Jan Jansson for Henry Holland, 1620. Part 2, p. 165. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli / edited by Torrance Kirby, Emidio Campi, and Frank James III. p. cm. — (Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition, ISSN 1871-6377; v. 16) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-90-04-17554-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499–1562. I. Kirby, W. J. Torrance. II. Campi, Emidio. III. James, Frank A. IV. Title. V. Series. BR350.V37C66 2009 270.6092—dc22 2009009881 ISSN 1871-6377 ISBN 978 90 04 17554 9 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, Th e Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS List of Contributors ........................................................................... ix Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xi Abbreviations and Acronyms ........................................................... xiii List of Illustrations ............................................................................. xvii Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Convocation Oration ......................................................................... 19 Emidio Campi PART ONE INTERNATIONAL CAREER Chapter One Italy: Religious and Intellectual Ferment ............ 25 Joseph C. McLelland Chapter Two Strasbourg: Vermigli and the Senior School ...... 35 R. Gerald Hobbs Chapter Th ree Oxford: Reading Scripture in the University ........................................................................................ 71 Charlotte Methuen Chapter Four Zurich: Professor in the Schola Tigurina ........... 95 Emidio Campi PART TWO LEARNING SACRED AND PROFANE Chapter Five Exegesis and Patristic Authority ........................... 117 David Wright (†2008) Chapter Six Aristotle and Scholasticism ..................................... 133 Luca Baschera vi contents Chapter Seven Humanism, Hebraism and Scriptural Hermeneutics ................................................................................. 161 Max Engammare Chapter Eight Exegesis and Th eological Method ...................... 175 N. Scott Amos Chapter Nine Ex Parte Videntium: Hermeneutics of the Eucharist ......................................................................................... 195 Maurice Boutin PART THREE BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES Chapter Ten Genesis Commentary: Interpreting Creation ..... 209 Emidio Campi Chapter Eleven Commentary on Judges: Patristic and Medieval Sources ........................................................................... 231 Gary Jenkins Chapter Twelve Expounding Psalms: Preces Sacræ .................. 249 Herman Selderhuis Chapter Th irteen Interpreting Lamentations: Th eodicy and the Turks ................................................................................. 267 Daniel Shute Chapter Fourteen I Corinthians Commentary: Exegetical Tradition ......................................................................................... 283 Jon Balserak Chapter Fift een Romans Commentary: Justifi cation and Sanctifi cation .................................................................................. 305 Frank James III contents vii PART FOUR THEOLOGICAL LOCI Chapter Sixteen Classical Christology ........................................ 321 William Klempa Chapter Seventeen Predestination and the Th irty-Nine Articles ............................................................................................. 355 David Neelands Chapter Eighteen Ecclesiology: Exegesis and Discipline ......... 375 Robert M. Kingdon Chapter Nineteen Eucharistic Th eology ..................................... 387 Peter Opitz Chapter Twenty Political Th eology: Th e Godly Prince ............ 401 Torrance Kirby Chapter Twenty-One Prayers and Sermons ............................... 423 John Patrick Donnelly, SJ Chapter Twenty-Two Epistolary: Th eological Th emes ............. 433 Christian Moser PART FIVE NACHLEBEN Chapter Twenty-Th ree Josias Simler’s Hagiography ................. 459 Michael Baumann Chapter Twenty-Four Vermigli and French Reform ................ 467 Jason Zuidema Chapter Twenty-Five A Literary History of the Loci Communes ....................................................................................... 479 Joseph C. McLelland viii contents Conclusion Vermigli’s ‘Stromatic’ Th eology ............................... 495 Joseph C. McLelland Vermigli Studies Bibliography ......................................................... 499 Index .................................................................................................... 519 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS N. Scott Amos is Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College, Virginia. Jon Balserak is Lecturer in Th eology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol. Luca Baschera is Wissenschaft licher Mitarbeiter, Institute for Swiss Reformation History, University of Zurich. Michael Baumann is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, University of Zurich, and a pastor of the Reformed Church of Canton Zurich. Maurice Boutin is McConnell Professor of Philosophy of Religion, McGill University. Emidio Campi is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Institute for Swiss Reformation History, University of Zurich. John Patrick Donnelly, SJ is Professor of History, Marquette University. Max Engammare is Director of Librairie Droz, Geneva. R. Gerald Hobbs is Professor Emeritus of Church History, Vancouver School of Th eology, British Columbia. Frank A. James III is Professor of Historical Th eology and Provost of Gordon-Conwell Th eological Seminary, Boston. Gary Jenkins is Van Gorden Professor of History, Eastern University, St David’s, Pennsylvania. Robert Kingdon is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wis- consin, Madison. x list of contributors Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Research on Religion, McGill University. William Klempa is Adjunct Professor of Th eology, McGill University and Principal Emeritus of Presbyterian College, Montreal. Joseph McLelland is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion, McGill University and Presbyterian College, Montreal. Charlotte Methuen is Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford. Christian Moser is Oberassistent, Institute for Swiss Reformation History, University of Zurich. David Neelands is Margaret E. Fleck Professor of Anglican Studies and Dean of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto. Peter Opitz is Privatdozent of Ecclesiastical History, Th eological Fac- ulty, University of Zurich. Herman Selderhuis is Professor of Church History and Polity, Th eo- logical University of Apeldoorn, Th e Netherlands. Daniel Shute is Librarian, Presbyterian College, Montreal School of Th eology. David Wright (†2008) was Professor of Patristic and Reformed Chris- tianity, University of Edinburgh. Jason Zuidema is Lecturer in the Department of Th eological Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Th e papers comprising this Companion were presented at an Interna- tional Conference titled ‘Th e New Hermeneutics of Peter Martyr Ver- migli (1499–1562): Exegesis and Th eology’ held at McGill University on 8–11 August 2007. Th e conference was made possible by a munifi cent grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for whose support the editors are very grateful indeed. Th anks are also extended to the following societies and corporations for their generous support: the Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte at the University of Zurich, the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, the McGill Centre for Research on Religion (creor), Th e Presbyterian College (Montreal), and Th e Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust (Toronto). Particular thanks are owed to John Vissers, Principal of the Presbyterian College,