Timothy George

Reading Scripture with the Reformers

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Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The hymn “Thanks to God Whose Word Was Spoken” on pages 14–15 was written by R. T. Brooks, ©1954, Ren. 1982 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Design: Cindy Kiple

Images: Calvin at a coucil in Geneva. Private Collection, the Stapleton Collection. The Bridgeman ArtLibrary.

ISBN 978-0-8308-6933-6 (digital)

ISBN 978-0-8308-2949-1 (print)

For

The Honorable Albert P. Brewer

and

The Reverend Charles T. Carter

ἀλλήλων τὰ βάρη βαστάζετε, καὶ οὕτως

ἀναπληρώσετε τὸν νόμον τοῦ Χριστοῦ

GALATIANS 6:2

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1 Why Read the Reformers?

2 Ad Fontes!

3 The Erasmian Moment

4 Whose Bible? Which Tradition?

5 Doctor Martinus

6 Lutheran Ways

7 Along the Rhine

8 Preach the Word

Conclusion

Image Credits

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Abbreviations

ANF A. Roberts and J. Donaldson, eds. Ante-Nicene Fathers. 10 vols. Buffalo: Christian Literature, 1885–1896. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951–1956. Reprint, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1994.

ARG Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Archive for Reformation History, Gütersloh, Westf; G. Mohn, 1904–.

CC Calvin’s Commentaries. 22 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

CNTC Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries. 12 vols. Edited by D. W. and T. F. Torrance. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959–1972.

CO Ioannis Calvini Opera Quae Supersunt Ommia. 59 vols. Corpus Reformatorum 29–88. Edited by G. Baum, E. Cunitz and E. Reuss. Brunswich and Berlin, 1863–1900.

CR Corpus Reformatorum. Edited by C. G. Bretsjchneider. Halle, 1834–1860.

CWE Collected Works of Erasmus. 86 vols. planned. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969–.

EE P. S. Allen, ed. Opus espistolarum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. 12 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1906–1947.

HCC Philip Schaff. History of the ...