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This work supplies a long-standing need in the field of early modern studies by providing a basic introduction to Reformed Scholasticism. Although technical studies abound and interest in the subject continues to rise, until the appearance of this work by Willem van Asselt and his colleagues, students of history have lacked a concise guide to help them navigate the difficult waters of Reformed...

the new way, that stood opposed to the via antiqua, the old way. The via antiqua was the way of the realism that had been accepted up to that time, which gave the greatest essential value to universals. For example, the universal concept “dog” was considered by followers of the via antiqua to be of greater essential value than a concrete dog, because according to them, all concrete dogs are created according to the universal concept “dog,” which God had in mind before creation. Because God and His
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