Catholic Conversations

On Classical Reformed Theology with Christian Wagner (Scholastic Answers)

Outline of the show

Two brief notes on the topic
1. Don't be jerks
2. Be careful

The Reformers
First Generation
Second Generation
Polemical Context
Formed an early iteration of scholasticism that was chiefly polemical (although, its full flowering doesn't come until the 1580's in replying to Bellarmine)
Pre-Tridentine
Early Orthodoxy (1565-1620)
Needed to build structure
Thus
First, needed confessions
Protestant Magisterium
Second, needed didactic theology
These are the guys that Bellarmine and Suarez were responding to
High Orthodoxy (1620-1700)
"during the period of early orthodoxy (ca. 1560– 1620), theology was developed and worked out primarily from the basis of the Reformed confessions. The period of high orthodoxy (ca. 1620–1700), however, saw comprehensive dogmatic works in which the results of exegesis, dogmatic formulations, polemical elements, and expositions of the practical implications of doctrine were combined into an imposing whole. The scholasticism of high orthodoxy was thus characterized by increasing precision in its theological apparatus. This allowed dogmatic material
to be worked out further and caused the number of polemical topics to increase. High orthodoxy was not a time for developing new systems but rather for building up what had been inherited from the theology of early orthodoxy"
Catholic Resourcement
Hermeneutic of Reformed Catholicity
Synod of Dort
Westminster Assembly
Puritans vs. Anglicans
Late Orthodoxy (1700-1790)
Dissolution of Reformed Theology
Resourcement movements
Mercersburg theology
Schaff's Development of Doctrine
Richard Muller

Critique
1. Puritans vs. Anglicans
2. Catholic Resourcement
3. Magisterial to Confessional

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