Thomas Summers' Commentaries on Matthew, Mark, and Luke (3 vols.)
Overview
These technical commentaries are not for Sunday school. Systematic theologian and liturgist Thomas O. Summers delivers verse-by-verse analysis on Matthew, Mark, and Luke, leading readers to draw their own theological interpretation. Written by one of the leading Methodist theologians (if not the leading Methodist theologian) of the nineteenth century, this commentary wastes no time explaining the historical and linguistic background of each phrase in each verse. Direct and somewhat lexical, the brevity of his sentences allow him to comment on almost every word of each verse—making the commentary notes almost three times longer than each Gospel commented on.
- Provides numerous theological and thematic cross-references with commentary
- Examines each Bible verse with logical and linguistic textual exposition
- Demonstrates thorough research and experience in textual analysis and Jewish culture
- Title: Thomas Summers’s Commentaries on Matthew, Mark, and Luke
- Author: Thomas O. Summers
- Publisher: Southern Methodist Publishing House
- Publication Date: 1869–1872
- Volumes: 3
- Pages: 957
- Christian Group: Methodist/Wesleyan
- Resource Type: Commentaries
- Topics: Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Partially includedThomas Osmond Summers (1812–1882), born in England, emigrated to America and was admitted to the Baltimore, Maryland, Conference in 1835. He soon became one of the leading Methodist theologians in the nineteenth century. He worked as editor for the Christian Advocate, Methodist Quarterly Review, and the Sunday School Visitor, and served as an editor for the Methodist Episcopal Publishing House. In 1875, he became professor of systematic theology at Vanderbilt University. Summers was chairman of the Hymn Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church and edited the Songs of Zion and the Wesleyan Psalter. He is the author of Baptism, Commentary on the Gospels, Commentary on the Ritual of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Systematic Theology: A Complete Body of Wesleyan-Arminian Divinity.