By exploring how Martin Luther, Martin Bucer, and John Calvin interpreted a set of eight messianic psalms (Psalms 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 72, 110, 188), Sujin Pak elucidates key debates about Christological exegesis during the era of the Protestant reformation. More particularly, Pak examines the exegeses of Luther, Bucer, and Calvin in order to (a) reveal their particular theological emphases and reading strategies, (b) identify their debates over the use of Jewish exegesis and the factors leading to charges of 'judaizing' leveled against Calvin, and (c) demonstrate how Psalms reading and the accusation of judaizing serve distinctive purposes of confessional identity formation. In this way, she portrays the beginnings of those distinctive trends that separated Lutheran and Reformed exegetical principles.
| ISBN: | 9780195371925 |
| Publication date: | 10th December 2009 |
| Author: | G Sujin Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Garrett Pak |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Studies in Historical Theology |
| Genres: |
Christianity Theology Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts History and Archaeology |