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A method for the Christian life: Martin Bucer and the Sermon on the Mount (Germany).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A method for the Christian life: Martin Bucer and the Sermon on the Mount (Germany)./
Author:	Tait, Edwin Robert.
Description:	361 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3681.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3191933
ISBN:	9780542363795

A method for the Christian life: Martin Bucer and the Sermon on the Mount (Germany).
Tait, Edwin Robert.

A method for the Christian life: Martin Bucer and the Sermon on the Mount (Germany). - 361 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3681.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2005.

This dissertation examines Martin Bucer's commentary on the synoptic Gospels, particularly Bucer's discussion of the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7) in both the original 1527 edition and the revisions of 1530 and 1536. The primary methodology used is the comparative history of exegesis, comparing Bucer's interpretation of the Biblical text with that of patristic, medieval, and sixteenth-century exegetes. The dissertation focuses on Bucer's understanding of the divine law as a guide to every aspect of the Christian life, and his strategies for dealing with the problems and tensions arising from this understanding. I begin with Bucer's view of the relationship between Old and New Testaments, arguing that he sees all of Scripture as containing the divine law (which he defines primarily as teaching), although this unified teaching exists under an outer husk of "ceremonies" in the Old Covenant. Next, I discuss the implications of this view for Protestant soteriology, particularly the distinction between Law and Gospel so prominent in the theology of Luther and Melanchthon. In the remaining three chapters of the dissertation, I explore the ways Bucer applies his understanding of the divine law to worship, civil society, and personal self-discipline. I conclude that Bucer uses the principle of love of neighbor as the lens through which to interpret the Scriptural record of the divine law (though this principle itself is given shape only by the specific teachings of Scripture, making Bucer's approach circular). Bucer sees the entire creation as the result of God's self-giving love, and he understands the purpose of Christ's work of redemption to be the creation of an elect community that embodies that love and comes to share in the divine nature through doing so. Bucer's theology is not free from ambiguity and conflict, but (contrary to what some confessionally minded scholars have argued) it is neither a "misinterpretation" of Luther's theology nor a mere step on the evolutionary ladder leading to Calvin. Precisely because of its paradoxical quality, it is worth taking seriously in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9780542363795Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

A method for the Christian life: Martin Bucer and the Sermon on the Mount (Germany).
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