The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41524-9 (ISBN)

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A study of the Old Testament interpretation in the theology of John Calvin and in the larger Reformed tradition.

The eleven essays in this volume demonstrate how Calvin and the Reformed tradition engage with the Old Testament. The articles address two main areas: Calvin's interpretation of certain Old Testament books, and how Reformed thinkers in the global world study, explain, and apply the teaching of the Old Testament in their own contexts. This volume is the expanded version of the papers presented at the 2019 Calvin Studies Society Colloquium.

Contributors include J. Todd Billings, Allison Brown, Thomas J. Davis, Jeff Fisher, Christine Kooi, Maarten Kuivenhoven, Scott Manetsch, Graeme Murdock, G. Sujin Pak, Yudha Thianto, and Michael VanderWeele.

Yudha Thianto, Ph.D., is Professor of History of Christianity and Reformed Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His publications include The Way to Heaven: Catechisms and Sermons in the Establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church in the East Indies (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin (IVP, 2022).

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Part 1

Calvin’s Interpretation of the Old Testament

1 Introduction

Yudha Thianto

2 Calvin beyond Literal and Allegorical Reading: Calvin and Old Testament Metaphors

G. Sujin Pak

3 Jeremiah in Geneva: Pastoral Theology in John Calvin’s Lectures on the Book of Jeremiah

Scott Manetsch

4 Calvin on “Distracting Emotions” and “Sinful Complaints” in Lament Psalms: Receiving Laments as Christian Scripture

J. Todd Billings

5 Calvin and Oecolampadius on the Servant Songs in Isaiah

Jeff Fisher

Part 2

The Old Testament in the Wider Reformed Tradition

6 Who Were the Israelites in the Netherlandish Reformation?

Christine Kooi

7 In Christo Homine Restuitur: William Ames’ Exegesis of Psalm 8 and 40

Maarten Kuivenhoven

8 “Weak Women” and “Manful Soldiers of Christ”: Gender and the Old Testament in the Political Writings of the Marian Exiles

Allison M. Brown

9 ‘On Preaching from Isaiah against Drunkenness in Late Seventeenth-Century Debrecen’

Graeme Murdock

10 Singing and Listening to Sermons on the Ten Commandments in Seventeenth-Century Dutch East Indies

Yudha Thianto

11 For the Beauty of the Earth: Marilynne Robinson, John Calvin, Creation, and Humankind

Thomas J. Davis

12 The Entangled Self: The Power of Exchange in Calvin’s Sermons on the Ten Commandments and Marilynne Robinson’s Novel of Consciousness

Michael Vander Weele

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Erscheinungsdatum	30.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 208
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	633 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-41524-6 / 9004415246
ISBN-13	978-90-04-41524-9 / 9789004415249
Zustand	Neuware