Eilhard Lubin, Academic Unorthodoxy, and the Dynamics of Confessional Intellectual Cultures.

NEOPLATONISM; RELIGIOUS disputations; REPUTATION; CULTURE; PHILOSOPHICAL theology; INTEGRITY

The article presents the discussion on paradigm of post Reformation confessionalization. Topics include asserting the civil and ecclesiastical authorities deploying in modernizing institutions and practices for unifying the developing territorial state and enforcing religious uniformity; and serious philosophy and science fled outside the walls of the university typically into the private sphere of courtly or aristocratic patronage.