Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology
Overview
Volume Two, Holy Scripture, examines post-Reformation understandings of Scripture as the word of God—its divinity, its properties, the integrity of the canon, and its interpretation.
Top Highlights
“The logical priority of Scripture over all other means of religious knowing in the church—tradition, present-day corporate or official doctrine, and individual insight or illumination—lies at the heart of the teaching of the Reformation and of its great confessional documents. Indeed, it is the unanimous declaration of the Protestant confessions that Scripture is the sole authoritative norm of saving knowledge of God. The Reformed confessions, moreover, tend to manifest this priority and normative character by placing it first in the order of confession, as the explicit ground and foundation of all that follows.” (Page 151)
“Whereas the Reformers rejected the quadriga and many of the results of medieval exegesis, they did not reject hermeneutical devices like the movement from promise or shadow in the Old Testament to fulfillment or reality in the New Testament, nor did they set aside a typological understanding of the relation of the Old to the New Covenant.” (Pages 469–470)
“A distinction between Scripture as source and theology as discipline is arguably present in the writings of even the earliest and least systematic of the Reformers. What is different between the Reformers and the medieval doctors is the radical biblicism of the Reformation—the sola Scriptura was initially argued in the context of a theology based on commentaries and constructed from loci drawn out of commentaries, as over against a theology that drew its loci and what later came to be called sedes doctrinae out of the tradition as well as out of Scripture.” (Page 162)
- Title: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology
- Author: Richard Muller
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Series: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--16th century; Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--17th century; Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--18th century; Protestant scholasticism
- ISBNs: 9781441255334, 9780801026164, 1441255338, 0801026164
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTRFMREFDG02
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:29:54Z
Richard A. Muller is the P.J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.