Reading Paul with the Reformers
Reconciling Old and New Perspectives
Stephen J. Chester
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505
© 2017 Stephen J. Chester
All rights reserved
Published 2017
isbn 978-0-8028-4836-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chester, Stephen J., author.
Title: Reading Paul with the reformers : reconciling old and new perspectives / Stephen J. Chester.
Description: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017001984 | ISBN 9780802848369 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Epistles of Paul—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—History—16th century.
Classification: LCC BS2650.52 .C448 2017 | DDC 227/.0609—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001984
To my parents, John and Ann Chester
The Sixteenth Century and the Twenty-First Century
Erasmus, Luther, and Contemporary Theological Interpretation of Scripture
1.1. An Apparent or Real Quarrel? Erasmus and Luther on Paul and Peter at Antioch
1.2. Erasmus and Luther on Scripture and Interpretation
1.3. Erasmus, Luther, and the Goals of Contemporary Theological Interpretation
1.4. Erasmus, Luther, and the Conflict of Interpretations
1.5. Erasmus, Luther, and Reception History
The Reformers’ New Pauline Exegetical Grammar
2. The Medieval Context of the Reformers
Pauline Exegesis and Soteriology
2.1. Continuity or Discontinuity? The Reformers and Medieval Pauline Interpretation
2.3. Medieval Appropriations of Augustine’s Pauline Exegetical Grammar
2.4. The Impact on Luther and the Reaction of the Council of Trent
3. The Human Plight apart from Christ
Sin, the Law, and the Conscience
The Works of the Law, Grace, and Faith
4.1. Not by the Works of the Law
Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin on Righteousness in Christ
5. Alien Righteousness in Christ
The Integration of Justification by Faith and Union with Christ in Martin Luther’s Pauline Exegesis
5.1. Luther’s account of Justification in its early Protestant Context
5.2. Interpreting Luther Interpreting Paul
5.3. The Human Plight: Luther’s Apocalyptic Anthropology
5.4. Christ Present in Faith: Justification and Union with Christ
5.5. Receiving Christ’s Righteousness
5.9. The Finnish School and their Opponents
5.10. The Finnish School and Alien Righteousness
5.11. Conclusions and Implications: United with the Victor
Justification on account of Christ in Philip Melanchthon’s Pauline Exegesis
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About Reading Paul with the Reformers: Reconciling Old and New PerspectivesIn debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of early Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with their Roman opponents and explores particular contributions made by such key figures as Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin. He relates their insights to contemporary debates in Pauline theology about justification, union with Christ, and other central themes, arguing that their work remains a significant resource today. Being published in the five-hundredth anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation, Reading Paul with the Reformers reclaims a robust, contemporary understanding of how the Reformers really read Paul. |
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