Biblical Interpretation
The principles and practice of interpreting Scripture, especially as developed within the Reformed tradition. Covers hermeneutics, exegetical method, and the relationship between text and theological understanding.
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Resources on Biblical Interpretation
22 resources on Biblical Interpretation, in curated order
Topic 13: Reading the Bible
Uniquely structured as an invitation to read through the Bible itself, from Genesis, Exodus, and the historical books through the New Testament. Supplementary readings include Alan Richardson’s A Preface to Bible Study, C.H. Dodd’s The Bible Today, and David Daniell’s biography of William Tyndale as a study of how Scripture was transmitted to the English-speaking church.
Topic 24: Revelation
Core texts are Calvin’s Institutes I.1-5 on the knowledge of God, Emil Brunner’s Revelation and Reason, and H. Richard Niebuhr’s The Meaning of Revelation. Secondary readings address the relationship between general and special revelation, the epistemological foundations of Christian theology, and the Reformed tradition’s distinctive approach to natural theology and Scripture.
Topic 29: The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church
The bibliography centers on Hughes Oliphant Old’s seven-volume The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. This comprehensive survey traces the history of Christian preaching from the biblical period through the modern era, giving sustained attention to how the Reformed tradition has understood the public reading, exposition, and proclamation of Scripture as the central act of Christian worship.
Peter Martyr Library: Commentary on the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Vermigli’s earliest surviving biblical commentary, on the Book of Lamentations. Hardback, $45.00. ISBN 9780943549644.
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 7: Our Own Time
The seventh and final installment of Old’s history of preaching, taking the story from the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council through the house churches of China and the preaching of Anglican Archbishop Kivengere in Uganda.
Background to Calvin’s Samuel Sermons
Kelly sets out the historical and textual background of Calvin’s sermons on II Samuel, describing Calvin’s Genevan preaching schedule, his extempore method, and the manuscript tradition behind the Samuel sermon corpus.
Biblical Wisdom and Reformed Worship
Old argues that biblical wisdom theology decisively shaped Calvin’s understanding of the Lord’s Supper, drawing out a wisdom dimension alongside the covenantal, kerygmatic, and eucharistic strands of Calvin’s sacramental thought.
Calvin and the Psalms
Selderhuis examines Calvin’s theology of the Psalms with particular attention to the hiddenness of God, an aspect of Calvin’s doctrine often overlooked, and shows how it shaped Calvin’s account of faith under trial.
Calvin and the Sensus Literalis
Burnett responds to Gary Hansen’s thesis on Calvin’s non-literal interpretation, arguing that Calvin’s occasional allegorical readings do not violate the literal sense but extend it within a richer Reformed account of biblical meaning.
Calvin as Prophet
Engammare considers how Theodore Beza and the Genevans portrayed Calvin as a prophet of God at his death, then asks what kind of prophetic office Calvin actually claimed and exercised in his preaching and exegesis.
Calvin’s Commentary on Acts
Wright compares Calvin’s commentary and sermons on Acts 1 through 7, treating Calvin’s parallel work as exegete and preacher and showing how the two genres illuminate Calvin’s reading of the apostolic narrative.
Calvin’s Commentary on Ephesians
Zachman examines Calvin’s sermons on Ephesians as a distinct vehicle for expounding and applying Scripture, distinguishing the homiletic work from the commentaries and showing how Calvin united exegesis with pastoral address.
Calvin’s Commentary on the Psalms
Mays approaches Calvin’s commentary on the Psalms through the preface as introduction, reading Calvin as a resource for Psalm interpretation today and noting where his exegesis remains in conversation with modern critical scholarship.
Calvin’s Language
Frye examines Calvin’s theological use of figurative language, beginning with Calvin’s warning against measuring God’s immensity by human standards, and locates Calvin within the catholic tradition of learned ignorance from Augustine to Cusa.
Calvin’s Non-Literal Interpretation of Scripture
Hansen confronts an apparent contradiction in Calvin’s exegesis, that he denounces allegory yet practices it, and argues that Calvin’s occasional non-literal readings conform to his own principles and show his living tie to medieval interpretation.
Calvin’s Preaching: An Introduction to His Sermons
McKee surveys the renewed twentieth-century attention to Calvin’s sermons, including the manuscript volumes discarded as old paper in 1806, and introduces the unique character of Calvin’s preaching alongside his Institutes and commentaries.
Calvin’s Rhetorical Method
Wright weighs whether Calvin can rightly be called a rhetorical theologian, surveying Serene Jones, Olivier Millet, and William Bouwsma on Calvin and rhetoric, and asking how Calvin’s humanist training shaped his doctrine and piety.
Calvin’s Sermon on I Samuel
Kelly translates a 1562 sermon from Calvin’s II Samuel series, in which Calvin expounds the death of Asahel at Abner’s hand and draws out the providential and pastoral instruction that the narrative offers the church.
Calvin’s Sermon on II Samuel
Kelly translates Calvin’s twenty-ninth sermon on I Samuel, in which Calvin expounds 1 Samuel 8 on Samuel’s warning about kingship, the limits of royal power, and the covenant binding kings and people to the just administration of law.
Calvin’s Sermon on the Mount
Z. N. Holler examines Calvin’s exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount, noting Calvin’s disciplined brevity and clarity, his sparing use of patristic citation, and his recurring refutation of the papists in expounding the teaching of Jesus.
Narrative and Calvin’s Theology
George W. Stroup addresses the widespread confusion among Reformed Christians about the authority and use of the Bible, proposing that attention to the narrative shape of Scripture offers a way forward for a church increasingly biblically illiterate.
The Significance of Historical Theology in the Education of Ministers
Dr. Leith argues for the indispensable place of historical theology in the formation of ministers, contending that the church’s past is not merely background but living resource for present ministry.
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