The Hermeneutics of John Calvin

Year 1988
Type Book
Genre biblical hermeneutics
Tradition Reformed
Original language English

For For specialists in Calvin, late-medieval thought and hermeneutics; not for a general reader.

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For the general reader: 0 of 5 not for the general reader
For the researcher: 4 of 5 important
Difficulty: 5 of 5 very hard

Calvin's way of interpreting scripture traced to late-medieval Paris: Scotus, Ockham and John Major, then Calvin's early writings.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 5 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 0 of 5
Sociological 1 of 5
Historical 5 of 5

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A study published by the Scottish Academic Press in 1988 as a monograph supplement to the Scottish Journal of Theology. Torrance explains in its preface that he had projected three volumes on the hermeneutics of the Fathers, of Calvin and of the moderns; this is the Calvin volume, and Divine Meaning (1995) is the patristic one. Part I sets out the Parisian background to Calvin's thought in John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham and John Major, with their accounts of abstractive and intuitive knowledge; Part II traces the shaping of Calvin's mind and his theological and hermeneutical method in his early writings. It is dedicated to Robert T. Walker.

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