Biblia Americana: Proverbs - Jeremiah: America's First Bible Commentary: A Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (5) - Couverture rigide

Mather, Cotton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3161542665 ISBN 13 : 9783161542664

Editeur : Mohr Siebeck, 2016

Synopsis

Cotton Mather's commentaries on Proverbs to Jeremiah are a treasure-trove for scholars interested in the development of Reformed theology and biblical interpretation during the early Enlightenment. Mather engages with issues of translation and questions about authorship, provenance, and genre, especially with regard to the three books ascribed to King Solomon. In turn, the annotations on Isaiah and Jeremiah are crucially concerned with the relevance of the Hebrew prophets for the claims of Christian theology. The volume shows the struggle of exegetes in Mather's generation to adjust traditional interpretations of the Old Testament to a growing awareness of the Scriptures' historicity. Many of the entries also reveal a new "Baconian" concern with demonstrating the factual realism of the Bible by recourse to empirical evidence and the natural sciences.

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À propos des auteurs

(1663-1728) The leading New England theologian of his period, Mather was both a defender of Reformed orthodoxy and an intellectual innovator, who propagated the Pietist renewal of Protestantism and embraced ideas of the Early Enlightenment. Best known for his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), he published more than 400 works in various fields including church history, natural theology, and medicine.

Born 1975; 2005 PhD in American Studies from the University of Tübingen; since 2011 Professor for the History of Christianity in the USA at the University of Heidelberg.

Born 1979; theological studies in Portland, Edinburgh and Tübingen; Privatdozent Dr. theol., Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Tübingen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mohr Siebeck
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3161542665
• ISBN 13: 9783161542664
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1119
• Éditeur: Stievermann Jan, Peterson Paul Silas, Dopffel Michael, Gelinas Helen K., Nemec Angelika
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