David S. Sytsma

Prof @TCU_jp. Director @PostRefDL. 📚on R. Baxter (OUP 2017); Beyond Dordt & De Auxiliis (Brill 2019). 16/17thC historian and lover of wisdom ✍️ now on ethics.

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

Little known fact that Protestants wrote over 50 commentaries and over 500 disputations on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. @SvenssonManfred and I are working on telling the story. A preview of some findings here: https://t.co/ueBzVP2nCP

[E.J. Hutchinson @ehutchinson1513]

I’m very pleased and very excited to share that I’ve signed a contract with Davenant Press (of the Davenat Institute) to publish my translation of Philip Melanchthon’s A SUMMARY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Many thanks to Mark Hamilton, their Editor-in-Chief!

CC: @DavenantInst

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

@reformedtexan I don’t think he’s read my book on this topic

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@reformedtexan That was a good time.

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@reformedtexan 🎉

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@PerfInjust True

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@jonathanramont Glad it helped

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@Cathedralulus Interesting. Any plans to do something with this? - Transcription or article

[E.J. Hutchinson @ehutchinson1513]

ICYMI, I put up a new post on Luther and Aristotle yesterday at @AdFontesJournal.

CC: @SvenssonManfred; @SytsmaDavid; @scottrswain; @carringtonam; etc.

Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (2): Solomon as ���Dr. Politics” https://t.co/ntHi8rdeN1

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

“Let the Greek professor … explain some book of philosophy concerning morals. The book will be by Aristotle or Plato or Plutarch or some Christian philosopher.”

— 1559 statutes of the Geneva Academy

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

@BrianWi63321246 @SvenssonManfred No

[Manfred Svensson @SvenssonManfred]

Publication day for “The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics”! @oupacademic https://t.co/2XrXWVKsLI
A short 🧵on the content.

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

Reading some books with students this semester

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@Seung_J_Lee Glad to see it in print!

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

The Protestant Reformation did not abandon eudaimonist virtue ethics.

[Summarizest @summarizest]

What opinion will you defend like this?

[Manfred Svensson @SvenssonManfred]

Delighted to share the cover of my forthcoming book, The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Ethics and the Politics.
To be published in two months by @OUPAcademic.

[Jordan J. Ballor @JordanBallor]

Now available, including contributions from @SytsmaDavid on Bavinck's Thomistic epistemology and Ted Van Raalte on Bavinck and natural law...

https://t.co/Xoy86HNJTE

@TheBavinckInst
@calvinseminary

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

@melchior_wolmar @PostRefDL It should be working now.

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

https://t.co/K5oTxOzaYq is up again.

Tech support made a change to allow for more user connections, so hopefully @PostRefDL will be more stable now.

[David S. Sytsma @SytsmaDavid]

On a break during a busy semester.

I’ll be back.

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@scottrswain @FredFredSanders and memes