Barret Reiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barret Reiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barret |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiter |
| SIGNATURE | REITER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Edmund’s College , Cambridge , UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Practical divinity, scholasticism and the fallen imagination in early modern England
This article introduces, and discusses, an under-explored genre of early modern English theological writing which has been described as concerned with “the government of thoughts.” It argues that a central feature of this genre is a conception of the imagination as fallen and prone to sin. It also argues that this genre represents a specifically practical application by English divines of certain themes already present within the scholastic philo…
A 'Fiction of the Mind
This chapter examines the conceptualization of Catholic liturgical practices within the Protestant anti-Catholic polemics of early modern England. I argue that, insofar as Protestants typically glossed such practices as 'idolatry', and thus, as the worship of a false god, Protestants explicitly accused Catholics of falling victim to the deceptive tendencies of their imaginations. Hence, for English Protestants, Catholics were responsible for tran…
William Perkins, the imagination in Calvinist theology and “inner iconoclasm” after Frances Yates
This article considers Frances Yates's famous attribution of "inner iconoclasm" to the rhetorical and logical innovations of Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), particularly as exemplified in the theological writings of the Elizabethan preacher William Perkins (1558–1602). According to Yates, the rejection, by Ramists such as Perkins, of the imagistic art of memory practised by Raymond Lull (c.1232–c.1315) and Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was tied directly t…
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William Perkins, the imagination in Calvinist theology and “inner iconoclasm” after Frances Yates
This article considers Frances Yates's famous attribution of "inner iconoclasm" to the rhetorical and logical innovations of Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), particularly as exemplified in the theological writings of the Elizabethan preacher William Perkins (1558–1602). According to Yates, the rejection, by Ramists such as Perkins, of the imagistic art of memory practised by Raymond Lull (c.1232–c.1315) and Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was tied directly t…
A 'Fiction of the Mind
This chapter examines the conceptualization of Catholic liturgical practices within the Protestant anti-Catholic polemics of early modern England. I argue that, insofar as Protestants typically glossed such practices as 'idolatry', and thus, as the worship of a false god, Protestants explicitly accused Catholics of falling victim to the deceptive tendencies of their imaginations. Hence, for English Protestants, Catholics were responsible for tran…
Practical divinity, scholasticism and the fallen imagination in early modern England
This article introduces, and discusses, an under-explored genre of early modern English theological writing which has been described as concerned with “the government of thoughts.” It argues that a central feature of this genre is a conception of the imagination as fallen and prone to sin. It also argues that this genre represents a specifically practical application by English divines of certain themes already present within the scholastic philo…
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Abbé (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)