Greene-McCreight, K. E.
Ad Litteram

How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the "Plain Sense" of Genesis 1-3.

This study examines understandings of the plain sense of scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, the author focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad Litteram, libri XII, Calvin's Commentary on the First Book of Moses, and Barth's Church Dogmatics 3.1. The results of this investigation urge an ecumenically significant understanding of the plain sense of scripture: within this theological trajectory, reading according to the plain sense involves a negotiation between the constraints of verbal sense and the Rule of Faith. XI,274 Seiten, gebunden (Issues in Systematic Theology; Vol. 5/Peter Lang Verlag 1999) Mängelexemplar/near mint