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Introducing Medieval Biblical Interpretation: The Senses of Scripture in Premodern Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does medieval hermeneutics have continuing relevance in an age dominated by the historical-critical method? Ian Christopher Levy asserts that it does. Levy shows that we must affirm both the irreversible advances made by the historical-critical method and the church’s lasting commitment to the deeper spiritual senses beyond the immediate historical circumstances of the text. In Introducing...

corporate person, thus with respect to head or members. “I rested and fell asleep and I arose” (Ps. 3:5) is spoken in the person of Jesus Christ (ex persona Christi) with regard to his passion and resurrection.101 Likewise, “You Lord are my support” (Ps. 3:3) is spoken by Christ to God in keeping with his humanity (secundum hominem), as the Word assumed human nature.102 Yet this same psalm, according to Augustine, can also be understood of the whole Christ (totus Christus), that is to say, Christ
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