Bucer, Ephesians and Biblical Humanism: The Exegete as Theologian

Author:   N. Scott Amos
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2015 ed.
Volume:   7
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9783319102375


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   07 November 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Bucer, Ephesians and Biblical Humanism: The Exegete as Theologian


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This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in their historical context, exploring what sort of a theologian Bucer was. The lectures are examined to find out how they represent Bucer’s method of teaching and “doing” theology, and shed light on the relationship between biblical exegesis and theological formulation as he understood it. Divided into two interconnected parts, the book first sets the historical context for the lectures, including a broad sketch of scholastic method in theology and the biblical humanist critique of that method. It then closely examines Bucer’s practice in the Cambridge lectures, to show the extent to which he was a theologian of the biblical humanist school, influenced by the method Erasmus set forth in the Ratio Verae Theologiaein which true theology begins, ends, and is best “done” as an exercise in the exegesis of the Word of God.

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Author:   N. Scott Amos
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2015 ed.
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.794kg
ISBN:  

9783319102375


ISBN 10:   3319102370
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   07 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Introduction.- PART I : HISTORICAL CONTEXT.- Chapter 2: The Old Theology and the New Learning at Cambridge to 1549.- Chapter 3: “Remember the Readings and Preachings of God’s Prophet and True Preacher, Martin Bucer”: Bucer’s Sojourn in Cambridge, 1549-1551.- PART II: THE PRAELECTIONES AS AN EXERCISE IN BIBLICAL-HUMANIST METHOD.- Chapter 4: “Ratio seu Methodus Martini Buceri”: Bucer’s Prefatory Lectures on Ephesians and His Use of Biblical Humanist Theological Method.- Chapter 5: “An Exposition of the Whole Doctrine of Salvation”: Bucer’s Deployment of Biblical Humanist Method in Exegesis and Theology and the Shape of the 1550 Ephesians Lectures as a Whole.- Chapter 6: Theology in an Exegetical Context: Bucer on Ephesians 1:3-6 and the Doctrine of Election.- Chapter 7: Theology in an Exegetical Context: Bucer on Ephesians 1:13-18 and the Doctrine of Faith.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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For biblical scholars and systematic theologians this work is significant for trying to understand the integral relationship between the disciplines. ... For the historian of the early modern period Amos gives us a clear understanding of the ecclesial politics in sixteenth-century Cambridge. ... As Protestants celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year they would do well to remember the contribution of Martin Bucer and biblical humanism within this global movement. Amos's work helps us do just that. (Brian Lugioyo, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1), 2017)


“For biblical scholars and systematic theologians this work is significant for trying to understand the integral relationship between the disciplines. … For the historian of the early modern period Amos gives us a clear understanding of the ecclesial politics in sixteenth-century Cambridge. … As Protestants celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year they would do well to remember the contribution of Martin Bucer and biblical humanism within this global movement. Amos’s work helps us do just that.” (Brian Lugioyo, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1), 2017)


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N. S. Amos is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he has taught since 2002. Dr. Amos received the PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2003, and holds graduate degrees in History (MA, the College of William and Mary), as well as Divinity (M.Div., Th.M., Westminster Theological Seminary). His particular fields of interest are: Martin Bucer, specifically his practice as a theologian and exegete, and his relationship with the English Reformation; Bucer’s broader career; the English Reformation more generally; and the history of biblical interpretation. He has published essays on these subjects in Renaissance and Reformation Review, Westminster Theological Journal, Renaissance Studies, as well as in several edited volumes published by Brill, Mohr-Siebeck, and Librairie Droz. Dr Amos also shared (with Andrew Pettegree and Henk van Nierop) in the editing of The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands (Ashgate, 1999), and contributed the article on Bucer to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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