Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

By exploring how Martin Luther, Martin Bucer, and John Calvin interpreted a set of eight messianic psalms (Psalms 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 72, 110, 188), Sujin Pak elucidates key debates about Christological exegesis during the era of the Protestant reformation. More particularly, Pak examines the exegeses of Luther, Bucer, and Calvin in order to (a) reveal their particular theological emphases and reading strategies, (b) identify their debates over the use of Jewish exegesis and the factors leading to charges of 'judaizing' leveled against Calvin, and (c) demonstrate how Psalms reading and the accusation of judaizing serve distinctive purposes of confessional identity formation. In this way, she portrays the beginnings of those distinctive trends that separated Lutheran and Reformed exegetical principles. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 10 Abbreviations 12 Introduction 16 1. Medieval and Late-Medieval Interpreters: The Legacy of Literal Prophecies of Christ 26 2. Martin Luther: Literal Prophecies Redeployed 44 3. Martin Bucer: Christological Readings through Historical Exegesis 68 4. John Calvin: The Sufficiency of David 90 5. The Judaizing Calvin: The Debate of Hunnius and Pareus 116 Conclusion 138 Notes 154 Select Bibliography 206 Index 222 A 222 B 222 C 223 D 224 E 225 F 225 G 225 H 225 J 225 K 226 L 226 M 227 N 227 O 227 P 227 R 228 S 228 T 228 U 229 V 229 W 229