Theologiestudium um 1600

The contributors to this volume examine theological education around 1600 from an interdenominational perspective: Reformed, Lutheran, Catholic, and (Eastern) Orthodox. The focus is on specific places of study, but above all on the students and their study practices.

The contributors to this volume examine theological studies around 1600 across denominational lines, focusing on the organization, academic practices, and student culture. The first section provides an overview of theological education within the various denominational educational landscapes; to this end, it presents different locations and academic regulations. The second section begins with a contribution that explores the stated goals of Lutheran theological education and then focuses on the conduct of studies and student life. The third section examines specific study practices at various locations, ranging from practice sermons and private seminars and disputations to methods of exegesis and note-taking.
Methodologically, the volume combines case studies in the history of universities and theology with the analysis of sources that have received little attention to date. This shifts the focus to actual study practices beyond statutes and regulations. Key sources include autobiographical accounts, lecture notes, and college regulations that shed light on student life, the conduct of studies, and teaching practices. The analysis also draws on printed disputations and notes, with sermon series serving as an integral part of academic studies. Contributors include scholars from the fields of theology and history from six countries and representing four different denominational backgrounds.
Geographically, the case studies range from Reformed locations such as Herborn and Basel – and Switzerland in general – to Lutheran locations such as Rostock, Wittenberg, and Jena, and from the Catholic city of Vienna to the Orthodox city of Kyiv.

Philipp Pilhofer: Einleitung: Die frühneuzeitliche Theologenausbildung zwischen Gelehrtenrepublik und Landpfarramt

I. Theologenausbildung in den konfessionellen Bildungslandschaften
Amy Nelson Burnett: Practical Aspects of Theological Education in Basel and the Reformed Academies of Switzerland - Thomas Kaufmann: Theologiestudium in Rostock um 1600 - Leonhard Hell: Die kontroverstheologische Prägung der jesuitischen Studienordnung - Zsófia Kádár: Theologische Ausbildung in Wien (1589-1625) - Nataliia Sinkevych: Kyivan Theological Academy and Kyivan Theological Tradition in the Seventeenth Century
II. Studienziel, Studienvollzug und studentisches Leben
Wolfgang E.J. Weber: Die Geschickten geschickt machen. Bemerkungen zur innerlutherischen Debatte um Theologie und Pastorentum im 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhundert - Andreas Gößner: Melanchthons Erbe(n). Die Universitäten Jena und Wittenberg um 1560/70 in der Wahrnehmung des Theologiestudenten Balthasar Siebenhaar - Andreas Mühling / Philipp Pilhofer: Theologiestudium und Studentenleben an der reformierten Hohen Schule in Herborn
III. Praktiken des Studierens
Daniel Gehrt: The Church as Lecture Hall. Sermons as an Integral Component of Theology Studies in Early Modern Protestant Europe - Philipp Pilhofer: Selbstorganisierte studiosi und penible praesides. Neue Quellen zu Organisation und Durchführung privater collegia um 1600 - Lars Röser-Israel: Einübung in die Theologie. Privatdisputationen als Bestandteil des Theologiestudiums an den Universitäten Wittenberg und Jena im frühen 17. Jahrhundert - Alicja Bielak: A Goldmine in a Notebook. Practical Applications of Jeremias Drexel's Art of Note-Taking

• Edited by Philipp Pilhofer