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Reading Scripture with the Reformers
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- Length: 270 pages
- Published: September 12, 2011
- Imprint: IVP Academic
- Item Code: 6933
- ISBN: 9780830869336
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In Reading Scripture with the Reformers, Timothy George takes readers through the exciting events of the sixteenth century, showing how this dynamic period was instigated by a fresh return to the Scriptures. George immerses us in the world of the Reformation, its continuities with the ancient and medieval church, and its dramatic upheavals and controversies. Most of all, he uncovers the significant way that the Bible shaped the minds and hearts of the reformers.
This book shows how the key figures of the Reformation read and interpreted Scripture, and how their thought was shaped by what they read. We are invited to see what the church today can learn from the fathers of the Reformation, and how these figures offer a model of reading, praying and living out the Scriptures.
"Author, professor, and well-known Reformation church historian, Timothy George, has provided the church with an excellent introduction to Reformation-era principles of biblical interpretation, preaching, and commentary writing. . . . George's volume is especially helpful in analyzing the way in which the Reformers read and interpreted Scripture and why their approach is of continuing benefit to the spiritual life of the contemporary church."
CONTENTS
Preface
1 Why Read the Reformers?
2 Ad Fontes!
3 The Erasmian Moment
4 Whose Bible? Which Translation?
5 Doctor Martinus
6 Lutheran Ways
7 Along the Rhine
8 Preach the Word
Conclusion
