Early Stuart Polemical Hermeneutics. Andrew Willet's 1611 Hexapla on Romans (Series: Reformed Historical Theology. Volume 50) - Pollock, Darren M.
Andrew Willet's 1611 Hexapla on Romans
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Darren M. Pollock examines the 1611 Romans hexapla commentary by the prolific Church of England preacher and controversialist Andrew Willet. While some have considered Willet’s later biblical commentaries to have been a retreat from his earlier engagement in religious controversy, the author argues that his exegetical work maintained a significant element of anti-Catholic polemics, only expressed in a different genre. This polemical hermeneutic served as an organizing principle and as a means by which to clarify the presentation of traditional Reformed readings in relief against a body of Roman Catholic theology that Willet believed threatened the gospel of grace. Paul’s letter provided ample opportunity for Willet to identify what is distinctive about Reformed theology – or rather, as Willet would have it, the particular ways in which “papist” dogma had diverged from the true line of Christian belief running from the Fathers through to the (truly “catholic”) Reformed church of the seventeenth century.Willet’...
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2017Uitgever: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Company KG351 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3525570538ISBN-13: 9783525570531Koop dit boek tweedehands
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351 p. Hardcover, brand new Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017 [Auteur: Pollock, Darren M.] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: Early Stuart Polemical Hermeneutics. Andrew Willet's 1611 Hexapla on Romans (Series: Reformed Historical Theology. Volume 50)]
