Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Reception, Critique, and Use of Aquinas in Protestant Thought 1
Manfred Svensson and David VanDrunen

Part I The Protestant Reception of Aquinas 25

1 Deformation and Reformation: Thomas Aquinas and the Rise of Protestant Scholasticism 27
Jordan J. Ballor

2 Thomas Aquinas and Reformed Biblical Interpretation: The Contribution of William Whitaker 49
David S. Sytsma

3 Jerome Zanchi’s Use of Thomas Aquinas 75
Stefan Lindholm

4 Richard Hooker and Thomas Aquinas on Defining Law 91
Torrance Kirby

5 Johann Gerhard’s Reception of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogia Entis 109
Jack Kilcrease

6 Doubting Reformational Anti‐Thomism 129
John Bolt

7 The Understanding and Critique of Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary German Protestant Theology 149
Sven Grosse

Part II Constructive Engagement 167

8 Philosophy Explored 169
Sebastian Rehnman

9 The Active and Contemplative Life: The Practice of Theology 189
Michael Allen

10 On Divine Naming 207
Scott R. Swain

11 Nature and Grace 229
Paul Helm

12 Aquinas’s Doctrine of Justification and Infused Habits in Reformed Soteriology 249
J. V. Fesko

13 The Influence of Aquinas on Protestant Ethics 267
Daniel Westberg

14 “Justice,” the “Common Good,” and the Scope of State Authority: Pointers to Protestant‐Thomist Convergence 287
Jonathan Chaplin

Index 307

About the Author

Manfred Svensson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Chile. His research has focused on Augustine, the idea of things indifferent (adiaphora), and on the history of toleration. His most recent book is Reforma protestante y tradición intelectual cristiana.

David VanDrunen is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law.