Ad Litteram
How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3 (Issues in Systematic Theology, V. 5)
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Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveadlitteramhowaug0000gree
- ISBN-100820439924
- ISBN-139780820439921
- LibraryThing3850225
- Library of Congress Control Number97039226
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number37994270
- Better World Books9780820439921
- Open LibraryOL11395936M
Classifications
- LCCBT695 .G717 1999
- LCCBT695.G717 1999
- DDC222/.1106/09
Description
One of the most complex problems in Christian interpretation of the Bible is the question of what constitutes a "plain sense" reading of Scripture. This study breaks fresh ground by examining understandings of the plain sense of Scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, the author focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram, libri XII, Calvin's Commentary on the First Book of Moses, and Barth's Church dogmatics 3.1. The results of this investigation urge an ecumenically significant understanding of the plain sense of Scripture: within this theological trajectory, reading according to the plain sense involves a negotiation between the constraints of verbal sense and the Rule of Faith.
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- Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3 (Issues in Systematic Theology, V. 5)
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