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The School of God: Pedagogy and Rhetoric in Calvin's Interpretation of Deuteronomy

The School of God: Pedagogy and Rhetoric in Calvin's Interpretation of Deuteronomy

Blacketer, Raymond A.

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Series: Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Soc, Book 3

Bible StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 904816995X
ISBN13: 9789048169955
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 19 2010
Pages: 299
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Calvin's Old Testament Exegesis in Context Calvin in Context Jean Calvin, the reformer and pastor of Geneva, is renowned as one of the most important figures in what came to be known as the Reformed and Presbyterian branch of the Protestant Reformation. Perhaps less well known is the fact that he devoted the bulk of his creative efforts to prea- ing, lecturing, and commenting on the Bible. Calvin envisioned a program of reform in Geneva in which the Bible, properly interpreted, would shape the minds and morals of the Genevan populace. The people of Geneva, whom Calvin viewed as a precise spiritual reincarnation of the sti- necked, intractable Hebrews of the Old Testament, were in need of some serious remedial education, and it was his duty as their chief minister to provide the requisite training in doctrine and godliness. Despite Calvin's emphasis on preaching and producing biblical c- mentaries, however, scholars have often portrayed him as a man of one 1 book--that one book being the Institutes of the Christian Religion. In so - ing, they have produced a one-dimensional and consequently incomplete view of Calvin's theological work. Scholars have tended to study Calvin's theology exclusively from the perspective of his Institutes, without taking into account his work of biblical interpretation and preaching, or the re- tionship of those efforts to the Institutes.

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