
Martin Luther on Reading the Bible as Christian Scripture
The Messiah in Luther's Biblical Hermeneutic and Theology
William M. Marsh(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 17. July 2017
224 pages
978-1-4982-8212-3 (ISBN)
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Above all else that the sixteenth-century German Reformer was known for, Martin Luther was a Doctor of the Holy Scriptures. One of the most characteristic features of Luther's approach to Scripture was his resolved christological interpretation of the Bible. Many of the Reformer's interpreters have looked back upon Luther's "Christ-centered" exposition of the Scriptures with sentimentality but have often labeled it as "Christianization," particularly in regards to Luther's approach of the Old Testament, dismissing his relevance for today's faithful readers of God's Word.
This study revisits this assessment of Luther's christological interpretation of Scripture by way of critical analysis of the Reformer's "prefaces to the Bible" that he wrote for his translation of the Scriptures into the German vernacular. This work contends that Luther foremost believes Jesus Christ to be the sensus literalis of Scripture on the basis of the Bible's messianic promise, not enforcing a dogmatic principle onto the scriptural text and its biblical authors that would be otherwise foreign to them. This study asserts that Luther's exegesis of the Bible's "letter" (i.e., his engagement with the biblical text) is primarily responsible for his conviction that Christ is Holy Scripture's literal sense.
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978-1-4982-8212-3 (9781498282123)
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Martin Luther on Reading the Bible as Christian Scripture
The Messiah in Luther's Biblical Hermeneutic and Theology
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The Messiah in Luther's Biblical Hermeneutic and Theology
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William M. Marsh is Assistant Professor of Theology in the School of Biblical and Theological Studies at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 2 Christ as the Sensus Literalis of Scripture in Luther's Prefaces to the Bible
- 3 Hermeneutical Implications of the Prefaces for Christ as the Sensus Literalis of Scripture
- 4 The Messiah in the OT and Christ as the Sensus Literalis of Scripture in Luther's Treatise On the Last Words of David
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
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