From Shadow to Promise

From Shadow to Promise

Old Testament Interpretation from Augustine to the Young Luther

par James S. Preus
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Première édition
1969
Editeurs
Harvard University Press
Langue
English

This is a wonderful resource for those studying both the ways that the Bible was interpreted in the Middle Ages and how Luther emerged as a unique and paradigm shifting teacher of Scripture. After recounting the confusing and often contradictory methods in which medieval interpreters tried to reconcile "the spirit and the letter" Preus introduces Luther as an evolving theologian lecturing on the Psalms who began to understand the Old Testament as "promise.

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