Calvin

Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper: A blot upon his labors as a public instructor?

by Ralph Cunnington

(2011) 73 Westminster Theological Journal 215-236

"Glaube under Rechtfertigung" | "Faith and Justification"

by Barbara Pitkin

in Calvin Handbuch, ed. Herman J. Selderhuis (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 284-95. In Dutch in Calvijn Handboek (Kampen: Kok, 2008).
In English in The Calvin Handbook (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009), 288-99.

Why Luther is not Quite Protestant: The Logic of Faith in a Sacramental Promise

by Phillip Cary

Pro Ecclesia, 14/4, Fall 2005

Argues that Luther's concept of the salvific power of the Gospel promise is based on a medieval Catholic concept of... more Argues that Luther's concept of the salvific power of the Gospel promise is based on a medieval Catholic concept of sacramental efficacy, because the Gospel is an outward word that gives what it signifies. This must be received by faith alone, but unlike later Protestantism it does not require "reflective faith," the belief that "I believe." This paper gets at the heart of my own theological thinking.

Calvin, Theology, and History

by Barbara Pitkin

in Seminary Ridge Review 12:2 (Spring 2010): 1-16.

The Protestant Zeno: Calvin and the Development of Melanchthon's Anthropology

by Barbara Pitkin

Journal of Religion 84/3 (July 2004): 345-78.

Prophecy and History in Calvin's Lectures on Daniel (1561)

by Barbara Pitkin

in Die Geschichte der Daniel-Auslegung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam: Studien zur Kommentierung des Danielbuches in Literatur und Kunst, ed. K. Bracht and D. DuToit (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007), 323-47.

Calvin's Mosaic Harmony: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Legal History

by Barbara Pitkin

Sixteenth Century Journal XLI/2 (2010): 441-466.

This article examines Calvin's commentary on Exodus through Deuteronomy (1563) through the lens of sixteenth-century... more This article examines Calvin's commentary on Exodus through Deuteronomy (1563) through the lens of sixteenth-century historical jurisprudence, exemplified in the works of François de Connan and François Baudouin. Recent scholarship has demonstrated how Calvin's historicizing exegesis of the Bible is in continuity with broader trends in Christian biblical interpretation in the late medieval period and the sixteenth century. Yet comparatively little work has been done on this other, essential context for understanding Calvin's hermeneutic. The intermingling of historical narrative and legal, doctrinal material in these four biblical books inspired Calvin to apply his historical hermeneutic more broadly and creatively in order to explain the meaning and significance of the Mosaic histories and prescriptions for the ancient Israelites, on the one hand, and pious readers living in the sixteenth century, on the other. Calvin's unusual and unprecedented arrangement of the biblical material and his attention to the affiliation between law and history resonate with what Anthony Grafton has described as a “new key” of history reading and writing and reveal Calvin engaging his generation's quest for historical method.

REVIEW OF: Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin by Roland Boer; ISBN 978-0-664-23393-8, £16.99, 148pp.

by Richard Davis

Review for Alban Books.