Focusing in the first instance on the Protestant reformers’ exegetical methods tends to obscure the significant shared aspects of their vision of Scripture with which
As seen in part one of this series on “Reading Scripture with the Protestant Reformers,” the reformers established claims for Scripture’s perspicuity precisely on a
The Protestant reformers have long been known for their turn to the “literal sense” of Scripture in the history of biblical interpretation. For some this
When one decides to follow God’s call into ministry in The United Methodist Church, one is inevitably confronted with a series of historic questions, including
Although it may sound trite to say that there has never been a better time to study history, the ever-increasing flood of digital sources on
A gap in the theological library of preachers and teachers of the Bible has begun to be filled in the last two decades, after nearly
“In the beginning was the Word.” At the root of apostolic preaching is God’s proclamation of the world’s salvation in the crucifixion and resurrection of
Often today one hears about a host of other gospels that tell us “other stuff” about Jesus. Most of these works come from the second
Despite the ressourcement movement in twentieth-century Catholicism, the writings of the Church Fathers remain largely understudied and under appreciated in the majority of Protestant seminaries.
Jean Guillaume de la Fléchère was born in 1729 in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. He attended the academy in Geneva (later, the University of