Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin, and Barth Read the Plain Sense of Genesis 1-3

by Kathryn Greene-McCreight

One of the most complex problems in Christian interpretation of the Bible is the question of what constitutes a plain sense reading of scripture. This study breaks fresh ground by examining understandings of the plain sense of scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, Professor Greene-McCreight focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad Litteram, libri XII, Calvin's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820439924
• ISBN13: 9780820439921
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.