The reception of ancient Christian literature in the 17th century was not limited to theology and dogmatics; indeed, a multitude of genre was typical of the handling of patristic texts. Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopediae, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational conflict, philology, philosophical argumentation), the articles in this volume do not stop at a quanitative evaluation of patristic quotations in the 17th century but also focus on the ways in which an altered understanding of patristic texts was linked to the changed conditions under which they were read. Alongside the progress made in scholarship in the 17th century, there were a crisis in education and breaks with tradition. One of the results of this was that Augustine in particular lost his previously unchallenged position. With contributions by:Silke-Petra Bergjan, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Irene Dingel, Ralph Häfner, Karla Pollmann, Scott Mandelbrote, Diana Stanciu, Johann Anselm Steiger weiterlesen