Synopses & Reviews
Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary celebrates the 500th anniversary of Philip Melanchthon's birth by highlighting one of his most important contributions to the intellectual world of Renaissance and Reformation: commentary on ancient texts. This book brings together essays not only by recognized connoisseurs of Melanchthon's thought but also by experts on other figures and movements within the Renaissance and Reformation, in order to provide a more accurate measure of the man and his distinction from and influence on other thinkers of his day. It also investigates both Melanchthon's wrestling with biblical texts and his equally significant exposition of other prominent ancient authors.
Synopsis
Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary celebrates the 500th anniversary of Philip Melanchthon's birth by highlighting one of his most important contributions to the intellectual world of Renaissance and Reformation: commentary on ancient texts. This book brings together essays not only by recognized connoisseurs of Melanchthon's thought but also by experts on other figures and movements within the Renaissance and Reformation, in order to provide a more accurate measure of the man and his distinction from and influence on other thinkers of his day. It also investigates both Melanchthon's wrestling with biblical texts and his equally significant exposition of other prominent ancient authors.
Table of Contents
Part I. Melanchthon's method and his contemporaries: The hermeneutics of commentaries: origins of Melanchthon's integration of dialectic into rhetoric / John R. Schneider. -- Rhetoric and dialectic in Erasmus's and Melanchthon's intepretation of John's Gospel / Manfred Hoffmann. -- Melanchthon's intepretation of Romans 5.15: his departure from the Augustinian concept of grace compared to Luther's / Rolf Schèafer. Part II. The scope of Melanchthon's interpretative work: The Biblical commentaries of Philip Melanchthon / Timothy J. Wengert. -- Melanchthon and Greek literature / Stefan Rhein. --The apology as a polemical commentary / Charles P. Arand. -- Part III. Measuring Melanchthon's impact on later commentators: Melanchthon's influence on the exegesis of his students: the case of Romans 9 / Robert Kolb. -- 'Scimus enim quod lex spiritualis est': Melanchthon and Calvin on the interpretation of Romans 7.14-23 / Richard A. Muller. -- Melanchthoniana in the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection / Daniel J. Rettberg.