Johann Friedrich König

The Theologia positiva acroamatica, one of the most widely used textbooks for the study of dogmatics in the 17th and 18th centuries, gives a clear and concise view of classic post-Reformation dogmatics. In this work, which is being published at the same time as the edition of the text by Johann Friedrich König, Andreas Stegmann describes König's life, provides an introduction to the teaching of dogmatics in the post-Reformation era and shows how the Theologia positiva was a part of the textbook literature which originated with this teaching. The author's analysis of numerous sources of university history shows how Reformation theology and the early modern culture of knowledge influenced the form and the content of König's text and how his textbook was used for teaching for a hundred years.