Eighth Annual RefoRC Conference 2018

Plenary Speakers

Charlotte Appel (Aarhus), Religious Books and Lutheran Piety: Education, Devotional Practices, and the Formation of Confessional Identity in Denmark c. 1530-1700

Michał Choptiany (Warsaw), Education and Reformation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Between Tradition and Innovation

Anne Eusterschulte (Berlin), ‘Political Philology’. Edition Practices and Educational Reform in the Reformation Period: A Case Study

Willem Frijhoff (Amsterdam), Education High and Low as an Asset of the Catholic Tradition (Late 15th-17th centuries)

Torrance Kirby (Montreal), Educating the Public in Tudor London: Outdoor Sermons at Paul’s Cross

Lucie Storchová (Prague), Post Praeceptorem Germaniae: The Transfer of Melanchthon’s Natural Philosophy to the Bohemian Lands from the 1540s onwards

Preliminary Program

Wednesday May 23, 2018

17:00-20:00       
RefoRC Board Meeting, Nowy Swiat 69, 4th floor, staircase B.
 

Thursday May 24, 2018

09:30-11:30       
RefoRC Member Meeting, conference room / sala konferencyjna, level –1 of the faculty building

 
11:30-12:30       
Lunch RefoRC Members

 
10.30-15.45       
Registration in room 13 on level –1 of the faculty building

 
12:45-15:30, Inaugural Session
All plenary sessions will be held in the conference room / sala konferencyjna, level –1 of the conference venue.

12:45-13:15       
Opening of the conference and welcome addresses

Award Ceremony RefoRC Book Award 2018

13:15-14:15       
Plenary Lecture 1: Charlotte Appel (Aarhus), Religious Books and Lutheran Piety: Education, Devotional Practices, and the Formation of Confessional Identity in Denmark c. 1530-1700

14:15-15:15       
Plenary Lecture 2: Willem Frijhoff (Amsterdam), Education High and Low as an Asset of the Catholic Tradition (Late 15th-17th centuries)

15:15-15:45       
Coffee Break

15:45-17:15       
Short Paper Panels

18:00-21:00       
Evening Program with guided tours.

Friday May 25, 2018

09:00-11:30, Plenary Session

09:00-10:00       
Plenary Lecture 3: Torrance Kirby (Montreal), Educating the Public in Tudor London: Outdoor Sermons at Paul’s Cross

10:00-10:30       
Coffee Break

10:30-11:30       
Plenary Lecture 4: Michał Choptiany (Warsaw), Education and Reformation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Between Tradition and Innovation

11:45-13:15       
Short Paper Panels

13:15-14:45
Lunch Break

14:45-15:45, Plenary Session

14:45-15:45       
Plenary Lecture 5: Lucie Storchová (Prague), Post Praeceptorem Germaniae: The Transfer of Melanchthon’s Natural Philosophy to the Bohemian Lands from the 1540s onwards

15:45-16:15       
Coffee Break

16.15-17:45       
Short Paper Panels

18.00-19.30       
Short Paper Panels

19:30                    
Reception, sponsored by De Gruyter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Saturday May 26, 2018

Updated program, version May 25, 2018

Plenary Session, 09:30-10:30      

09:30-10:30     
Plenary Lecture 6: Anne Eusterschulte (Berlin), ‘Political Philology’. Edition Practices and Educational Reform in the Reformation Period: A Case Study

10.30-11:00      
Coffee Break

11:00-12:30         
Short paper panels

Plenary Session        

12:45-13:00       
Closing of the conference
Announcing the Ninth  Annual RefoRC Conference 2019 by Dr. Gianmarco Braghi (Bologna)

Accepted Short Papers

Ariane Albisser (Zürich): Pneumatology in Henry Bullinger’s Systematic Works

Piotr Alexandrowicz (Poznań): The Freedom of Contract in the Confessional Context: Comparison of the Doctrines of Comitoli, Grotius and Pufendorf

Jordan J. Ballor (Grand Rapids/Amsterdam): Vocation and Hierarchy in the Thought of Richard Baxter

Henk van den Belt (Groningen): Called by Grace: The Influence of Martin Bucer on John Calvin’s Concept of the Call to Salvation. 

Lyle D. Bierma (Grand Rapids): The Alleged Incoherence of Calvin’s Doctrine of Baptism

Gianmarco Braghi (Bologna): Beyond Catechisms and Calvin’s “Institutio”: Pierre Viret and the “Exposition familière” as an Educational Literary Genre

Simon J.G. Burton (Edinburgh): Covenant and Participation in Early Modern Ramism: Musings on the New England Mind

Jan Červenka (Olomouc): Humanism and the Defence of the Utraquist Church in Bohemia

Radim Červenka (Prague/Olomouc): Optimistic Anthropology? Sin and Penitence in Comenius Work and the Bohemian Reformation

Alejandro Chafuen (Grand Rapids): The Economic Rights of Sinners: Francisco de Vitoria and His Protestant Interlocutors

Martin Christ (Tübingen/Oxford): Education in a Pluriconfessional Border Region, Upper Lusatia c. 1520-1635 

Nicholas Cumming (Malibu): Geneva Among the Reformed: The Pastoral, Political, and Academic Contexts of the City of Geneva in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

William Engel (Sewanee): The Making of a Protestant Art of Memory

Gioia Filocamo (Terni-Parma): Representing Music to Teach Emotions Through the Still-Life Paintings of Musical Instruments by Evaristo Baschenis (1607-1677)

Philip Fisk (Leuven): The Will to Love God above All Else: Luther, Edwards, and the Bondage of the Will

Wim  François (Leuven): The Sacrament of Marriage after Trent: Biblical Scholarship and Visual Exegesis

Aurelio García (Puerto Rico): Reason, Faith and Indifference: A Recurring Cluster of Themes in French Reformed Thought from Calvin to Bayle. 

Marco Giardini (independent scholar): “Advancement of Learning” or “Reformation of the whole world?” Chiliastic Understanding of Natural Knowledge Between the 16th and 17th Centuries

Linda Gottschalk (Badhoevedorp): Christ the Rector: Caspar Coolhaes Critiques Theological Education at Leiden University

Niranjan Goswami (Kolkata): The Strangeness of Commonplaces: Melanchthon’s Use of the Loci as a Concept-making Tool in Education

Klaudia Gumieniak (Warsaw): The Image of Religious Situation in Poland in the Reign of Sigismund Augustus (1548-1572) in the ‘Relazioni Finali of Papal Nuncios’

Sabine Hiebsch (Kampen): Challenges of a Religious Minority: Educating Lutherans in the Dutch Republic

Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen): The Cradle of Reformation Education: The Leucorea in the Early Sixteenth Century

Maciej Jońca (Lublin): “Susanna ex 13. Danielis tragoedia” as a Literary Toy Used for Legal Education in the Protestant Gymnasium Illustre in Leszno in the 17th Century 

Hyun-Ah Kim (Bretten/Kampen): The Humanist Pedagogy of Hebrew Biblical Chant in the Reformation: Reuchlin’s Reconstruction of the aAcient Modulata Recitatio

Thomas Klöckner (Apeldoorn): Teaching the Beginnings: Henricus Altingiusʼ (1583–1644) Early Lecture on a History of Dogma

Christian Könne (Kaiserslautern): The Representation of the Reformation in German History Education

Jakub Koryl (Kraków): Beasts at School: Education for the Advancement of Germanness

Wojciech Kordyzon (Warsaw): Genological Crossroads: Polish Translation of Ochino’s Dialogue and Shaping Communication with a Reader 

Justin Kroesen (Bergen, N): A House for a Lord: The Visual Impact of Gentlemen’s Pews in Early Protestant Church Interiors in the North of the Netherlands

Tabita Landová (Prague): Every Man Complete in Christ. Christian Education of the Bohemian Brethren before Comenius

Hans Leaman (Göttingen): Protestant Anti-Pilgrimage Polemics and the Ideal of the Evangelical Merchant

Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa (Cracow): Reformation of the Church and the Jesuit Education in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century 

Balázs Dávid Magyar (Debrecen): Crime and the Very Grace of God: Theoretical and Practical Fulfilment of God’s Law. John Calvin’s Theological and Judicial Teachings on Adultery.

Yelena Mazour (Paris): Jean Gerson’s Contribution to Lutheran Music

Hicham Merzouki (Ghent): Death in George Herbert’s The Temple

Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz (Lublin): Sacra poesis of Silesian Protestants and its Educational Function during the Reformation

Wim Moehn (Amsterdam): Guido de Bres’s Oeuvre in a Critical Edition

Attila K. Molnar (Budapest): The Protestant Ethic in Hungary: Vocation and Identity

Tünde Móré (Budapest): The Poetical Representation of Travel in the 16th Century Laudatory Poems in Wittenberg

Matthew Norris (Cambridge): The Anabaptist Crisis: A Fresh Perspective on Anabaptists during the Reformation

Marta Quatrale (Berlin): “Grundsuppe aller Sacramentschwermerey”. A ‘philological’ Path in the Reactions Against the So-called Consensus Dresdensis

Stanisław Rabiej (Warsaw): Sixteenth-Century Protestant Spirituality

Davi C. Ribeiro Lin (Belo Horizonte/Leuven): Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther on Grace: Retracing a Historical Course for a Complementary Dialogue. 

Tadeusz Rubik (Warsaw): Jakub Wujek’s Translation of the Holy Scripture Against Protestant Teachings on the Holy Images

Hadje Sadje (Leuven): Reformation’s Dangerous Idea: The Undermined Social Impact of the Sixteenth Century among Filipino Mainline Protestant Churches

Jane Schatkin Hettrick (New York): Educating the Organist: A Contract for a Lutheran Organist in Vienna in 1824

Sergiej Slavinski (Edinburgh): Covenant Pacification: The Relationship between Iputation and Conscience in John Owen’s Doctrine of Justification

Matthew J. Tuininga (Grand Rapids): Puritans and Pequots: The Political Theology of Genocide

Dolf te Velde (Kampen): Reformed Theology and the War on Education: Bartholomaeus Keckermann on the Debate between Aristotle and Ramus

Maria Lucia Weigel (Bretten): Teaching and Preaching the Cross. Illustrations on Frontispieces of Protestant Catechisms and Songbooks

Izabela Winiarska-Górska (Warsaw): Middle Polish Bible Translations as a Formative Genre 

Jacolien Wubs (Groningen): Protestant Text Decoration in a North-Sea-perspective: Lutheran ‘Schriftaltäre’ and ‘Katekismetavler’, Calvinist ‘Tien gebodenborden’ and Anglican ‘Ten Commandments Boards’

Date: April 30, 2018

Short Paper Panel Survey

Panel Schedule Thursday May 24, 2018, 15.45-17.15 h

Session 1A. The Reformation in Bohemia
Chair: Simon J. G. Burton (Edinburgh)

Jan Červenka (Olomouc): Humanism and the Defence of the Utraquist Church in Bohemia
Tabita Landová (Prague): Every Man Complete in Christ. Christian Education of the Bohemian Brethren before Comenius
Radim Červenka (Prague/Olomouc): Optimistic Anthropology? Sin and Penitence in Comenius Work and the Bohemian Reformation

Session 1B. Education and Radical Reform
Chair: Zsombor Tóth (Budapest)

Matthew Norris (Cambridge): The Anabaptist Crisis: A Fresh Perspective on Anabaptists during the Reformation
Marta Quatrale (Berlin): “Grundsuppe aller Sacramentschwermerey”. A ‘philological’ Path in the Reactions Against the So-called Consensus Dresdensis
Marco Giardini (independent scholar): “Advancement of Learning” or “Reformation of the whole world?” Chiliastic Understanding of Natural Knowledge Between the 16th and 17th Centuries

Session 1C. Pastoral Theology and Spirituality
Chair: Volker Leppin (Tübingen)

Balázs Dávid Magyar (Debrecen): Crime and the Very Grace of God: Theoretical and Practical Fulfilment of God’s Law. John Calvin’s Theological and Judicial Teachings on Adultery.
Thomas Klöckner (Apeldoorn):  Teaching the Beginnings: Henricus Altingiusʼ (1583–1644) Early Lecture about on History of Dogma
Stanisław Rabiej (Warsaw): Sixteenth-Century Protestant Spirituality

Session 1D. Ethical and Social Impacts of the Reformation
Chair: Lucie Storchova (Prague)

Hadje Sadje (Leuven): Reformation’s Dangerous Idea: The Undermined Social Impact of the Sixteenth Century among Filipino Mainline Protestant Churches
Piotr Alexandrowicz (Poznań): The Freedom of Contract in the Confessional Context: Comparison of the Doctrines of Comitoli, Grotius and Pufendorf
Attila K. Molnar (Budapest): The Protestant Ethic in Hungary: Vocation and Identity

Panel Schedule Friday May 25, 2018, 11.45-13.15 h

Session 2A. Ramism and Aristotelianism
Chair: Michał Choptiany (Warsaw)

Simon J.G. Burton (Edinburgh): Covenant and Participation in Early Modern Ramism: Musings on the New England Mind
William Engel (Sewanee): The Making of a Protestant Art of Memory
Dolf te Velde (Kampen): Reformed Theology and the War on Education: Bartholomaeus Keckermann on the Debate between Aristotle and Ramus

Session 2B. Reformation Poetry and Polemics
Chair: Torrance Kirby (Montreal)

Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz (Lublin): Sacra poesis of Silesian Protestants and its Educational Function during the Reformation
Tünde Móré (Budapest): The Poetical Representation of Travel in the 16th Century Laudatory Poems in Wittenberg
Hicham Merzouki (Ghent): Death in George Herbert’s The Temple

Session 2C. Polish Intellectual and Religious Culture
Chair: Willem Frijhoff (Rotterdam)

Izabela Winiarska-Górska (Warsaw): Middle Polish Bible Translations as a Formative Genre 
Wojciech Kordyzon (Warsaw): Genealogical Crossroads: Polish Translation of Ochino’s Dialogue and Shaping Communication with a Reader 
Tadeusz Rubik (Warsaw): Jakub Wujek’s Translation of the Holy Scripture Against Protestant Teachings on the Holy Images

Panel Schedule Friday May 25, 2018, 16.15-17.45 h

Session 3A. Baptism, Salvation and Pneumatology
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (Apeldoorn)

Lyle D. Bierma (Grand Rapids): The Alleged Incoherence of Calvin’s Doctrine of Baptism
Henk van den Belt (Groningen): Called by Grace: The Influence of Martin Bucer on John Calvin’s Concept of the Call to Salvation. 
Ariane Albisser (Zürich): Pneumatology in Henry Bullinger’s Systematic Works

Session 3B. Art in the Reformation
Chair: Karla Boersma

Justin Kroesen (Bergen, N): A House for a Lord: The Visual Impact of Gentlemen’s Pews in Early Protestant Church Interiors in the North of the Netherlands
Maria Lucia Weigel (Bretten): Teaching and Preaching the Cross. Illustrations on Frontispieces of Protestant Catechisms and Songbooks [Paper in German]
Jacolien Wubs (Groningen): Protestant Text Decoration in a North-Sea-perspective: Lutheran ‘Schriftaltäre’ and ‘Katekismetavler’, Calvinist ‘Tien gebodenborden’ and Anglican ‘Ten Commandments Boards’

Session 3C. Tridentine Perspectives on Education
Chair: Gianmarco Braghi (Bologna)

Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa (Cracow): Reformation of the Church and the Jesuit Education in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century 
Wim François (Leuven): The Sacrament of Marriage after Trent: Biblical Scholarship and Visual Exegesis
Martin Christ (Tübingen/Oxford): Education in a Pluriconfessional Border Region, Upper Lusatia c. 1520-1635 

Session 3D. Formation and Education in the Low Countries
Chair: Charlotte Appel (Aarhus)

Wim Moehn (Amsterdam): Guido de Bres’s Oeuvre in a Critical Edition
Sabine Hiebsch (Kampen): Challenges of a Religious Minority: Educating Lutherans in the Dutch Republic
Linda Gottschalk (Badhoevedorp): Christ the Rector: Caspar Coolhaes Critiques Theological Education at Leiden University

Panel Schedule Friday May 25, 2018, 18.00-19.30 h

Session 4A. Music and Religious Education in Reformation Europe
Chair: Stanisław Rabiej (Warsaw)

Hyun-Ah Kim (Bretten/Kampen): The Humanist Pedagogy of Hebrew Biblical Chant in the Reformation: Reuchlin’s Reconstruction of the Ancient Modulata Recitatio
Yelena Mazour (Paris): Jean Gerson’s Contribution to Lutheran Music
Gioia Filocamo (Terni-Parma): Representing Music to Teach Emotions Through the Still-Life Paintings of Musical Instruments by Evaristo Baschenis (1607-1677)

Session 4B. Reformed Education and Catechising
Chair: Sabine Hiebsch (Kampen)

Gianmarco Braghi (Bologna): Beyond Catechisms and Calvin’s “Institutio”: Pierre Viret and the “Exposition familière” as an Educational Literary Genre
Nicholas Cumming (Malibu): Geneva Among the Reformed: The Pastoral, Political, and Academic Contexts of the City of Geneva in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Aurelio García (Puerto Rico): Reason, Faith and Indifference: A Recurring Cluster of Themes in French Reformed Thought from Calvin to Bayle. 

Session 4C. Lutheran Concepts of Education
Chair: Günter Frank (Bretten)

Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen): The Cradle of Reformation Education: The Leucorea in the Early Sixteenth Century
Niranjan Goswami (Kolkata): The Strangeness of Commonplaces: Melanchthon’s Use of the Loci as a Concept-making Tool in Education
Jakub Koryl (Kraków): Beasts at School: Education for the Advancement of Germanness

Panel Schedule Saturday May 26, 2018, 09.15-11.15 h

Session 5A. The Deformation of Rights? Complexities in Early Modern Protestant Ethics and Economics
Chair: Andrew McGinnis (Grand Rapids)

Jordan J. Ballor (Grand Rapids/Amsterdam): Vocation and Hierarchy in the Thought of Richard Baxter
Alejandro Chafuen (Grand Rapids): The Economic Rights of Sinners: Francisco de Vitoria and His Protestant Interlocutors
Matthew J. Tuininga (Grand Rapids): Puritans and Pequots: The Political Theology of Genocide

Session 5B. Reformation, Education and the Arts
Chair: Jakub Koryl (Kraków)

Maciej Jońca (Lublin): “Susanna ex 13. Danielis tragoedia” as a Literary Toy Used for Legal Education in the Protestant Gymnasium Illustre in Leszno in the 17th Century 
Christian Könne (Kaiserslautern): The Representation of the Reformation in German History Education
Jane Schatkin Hettrick (New York): Educating the Organist: A Contract for a Lutheran Organist in Vienna in 1824

Session 5C. Theological Perspectives on Freedom, Grace and Justification
Chair: Simon J. G. Burton (Edinburgh)

Philip Fisk (Leuven): The Will to Love God above All Else: Luther, Edwards, and the Bondage of the Will
Davi C. Ribeiro Lin (Belo Horizonte/Leuven): Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther on Grace: Retracing Historical Course for a Complementary Dialogue. 
Sergiej Slavinski (Edinburgh): Covenant Pacification: The Relationship between Imputation and Conscience in John Owen’s Doctrine of Justification

Session 5D. Rhetoric, Politics and History
Chair: Michał Choptiany (Warsaw)

Klaudia Gumieniak (Warsaw): The Image of the Religious Situation in Poland in the Reign of Sigismund Augustus (1548-1572) in the ‘Relazioni Finali of Papal Nuncios’
Hans Leaman (Göttingen): Protestant Anti-Pilgrimage Polemics and the Ideal of the Evangelical Merchant

Version: May 14, 2018.

Subject to changes.