The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) - Hardcover

Book 23 of 70: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology

Pak, G. Sujin

 
9780195371925: The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

G. Sujin Pak is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

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