David C Steinmetz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Steinmetz |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinmetz |
| SIGNATURE | STEINMETZ D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bible in the Sixteenth Century
A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the thesis that the intellectual and religious life of the sixteenth century cannot be understood without attention to the preoccupation of sixteenth-century humanists and theologians with the interpretation of the Bible. Topics explored include Jewish exegesi…
“The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis”
John Calvin and the Jews
Although John Calvin rejected the angry invective of Martin Luther against the Jews, he nevertheless agreed with him that Christian biblical interpretation was a more reliable guide to the mind of the patriarchs in Genesis than the exegesis of Rabbinic Judaism. The Hebrew Bible was therefore properly understood as Christian Scripture and had always been addressed to the Church as well as to ancient Israel.Keywords: allegoricalCalvinDenis the Cart…
John Calvin as an interpreter of the Bible
When John Calvin published in 1540 his first commentary on the Bible, an interpretation of St. Paul's letter to the Romans, he joined a lively conversation that had been taking place in the Christian church ever since its inception. Paul's letter was itself a kind of commentary, a reinterpretation of stories and songs from the Old Testament, especially from Genesis and the book of Psalms. Paul was convinced that these ancient Hebrew writings had …
Calvin and the Bible
During the past several decades a growing number of scholars have come to appreciate the importance of studying John Calvin's interpretive work as a commentator on Scripture in addition to his better-known writings on theology. In this volume ten essays by scholars specializing in Calvin's exegetical methods examine the approaches and themes Calvin emphasized when he interpreted major portions of Scripture. These essays focus on Calvin's work in …
Sämtliche Schriften
The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology
The European Reformation of the sixteenth century was one of the most formative periods in the history of Christian thought and remains one of the most fascinating events in Western history. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology provides a comprehensive guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each of the eighteen chapters is written by a leading authority in the field and provides an up-to-date account and analy…
The Catholic Luther
The article traces the changing conceptions of Martin Luther in Protestant and Catholic circles, from the sixteenth century to the present. Catholic theologians first saw Luther as morally flawed, a stubborn heretic whose teaching was in no sense compatible with ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Though Protestants defended Luther's catholicity, their defense rested in part on a redefinition of what constitutes true catholicity. For modern …
Continuity and Change
Robert J. Bast and Andrew C. Gow, eds. Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History: Essays presented to Heiko A. Oberman on his 70th Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xv + 1 color pl. + 430 pp. bibl. index. $97. ISBN: 9-0041-1633-8. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Reformers in the Wings
This book not only introduces the general reader to twenty of the lesser‐known figures of the sixteenth‐century Reformation but it also outlines the theological issues they debated. It divides the reformers into four confessional families – Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical – with chapters devoted to five representatives from each family. Every chapter introduces a theological problem as well as an engaging figure. Through this collection…
Andreas Bodenstein Von Carlstadt (1480–1541)
Andreas Carlstadt was an early ally of Martin Luther and a colleague on the faculty at the University of Wittenberg. Although he was committed to what appeared to be a common Augustinian theology, he differed with Luther over the pace and extent of the Reformation. Carlstadt opposed images in the church (Luther retained them) and introduced themes from German mysticism into his discussions of justification. For a period of time, he renounced acad…
The Intellectual Appeal of the Reformation
Luther und Calvin am Jabbokufer
L'A. compare les interpretations du livre de la Genese faites par Luther et Calvin en prenant plus particulierement l'exemple de leurs commentaires respectifs de la scene de la lutte de Jacob avec l'ange. Il compare ces commentaire avec un troisieme datant de l'epoque precedant la Reforme due a Denis (Denis der Karthauser,Dyonisii Carusiani, 1402/3-1471). Ces comparaisons permettent a l'A. d'etablir les points communs et les divergences entre ces…
Theorie et pratique de l'exegese
Calvin and the Natural Knowledge of God
Luther's Theology of the Cross
Alister E. McGrath. Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Oxford-New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. viii+ 199 pp. $24-95. - Marilyn J. Harran, ed. Luther and Learning: The Wittenberg University Luther Symposium. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1985. 1 pl. + 144 pp. $19-50. - Volume 41 Issue 1
Luther in Context
Calvin and Abraham
It is possible to be so familiar with a subject that one no longer sees its peculiar features. Roger Fry, the English art critic, spoke of a specialization of vision that prevents us from observing familiar objects around us until artists awaken us to the distinctive reality of what we have overlooked by lending us their eyes. Historical discoveries are often very much like an aesthetic awakening. Only a relatively small percentage are prompted b…
Iohannis Calvini Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos
Iohannis Calvini Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. Ed. T. H. L. Parker. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 22.) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. xxiv + 344 pp. Dfl.180. - Volume 40 Issue 4
Luther and the Ascent of Jacob's Ladder
On the west front of Bath Abbey there are carved two stone ladders stretching from heaven to earth on which twelve angels are climbing, six on each ladder. A tourist who sees the west front of the abbey for the first time is told that the carvings represent the dream of Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells under Henry VII and his former chief secretary. The bishop had a nocturnal vision of angels climbing ladders to heaven. As he stood before th…
Calvin wider die Neugierde
E. P. Meijering. Calvin wider die Neugierde: Ein Beitrag zum Verglekh zwischen reformatorischem und patristischem Denken. (Bibliotheca Humanistica et Reformatorica, 29.) Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1980. x+122 pp. Drl.55. - Volume 35 Issue 4
Religious Ecstasy in Staupitz and the Young Luther
The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis
“The medieval theory of levels of meaning in the biblical text, with all its undoubted defects, flourished because it is true, while the modern theory of a single meaning, with all its demonstrable virtues, is false. Until the historical-critical method becomes critical of its own theoretical foundations and develops a hermeneutical theory adequate to the nature of the text which it is interpreting, it will remain restricted—as it deserves to be—…
Reformation and Conversion
“These four themes from early Protestant thought–the denial of the possibility of preparation for the reception of grace, the insistence on the church as the context in which genuine repentance takes place, the description of conversion as a continuous and lifelong process, and the warning that there is no conversion which does not exact a price from the penitent–are certainly not the only themes which need to be considered by the church in the p…
The Concept of Grace in the Radical Reformation
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The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis
“The medieval theory of levels of meaning in the biblical text, with all its undoubted defects, flourished because it is true, while the modern theory of a single meaning, with all its demonstrable virtues, is false. Until the historical-critical method becomes critical of its own theoretical foundations and develops a hermeneutical theory adequate to the nature of the text which it is interpreting, it will remain restricted—as it deserves to be—…
The Necessity of the Past
“The first task of church history as a theological discipline is to free us from our own parochialism and make us truly catholic... There is one commandment and one only which church historians must scrupulously observe: honor thy father and mother. They must accept the past as it offers itself to them.... A church which has lost its memory of the past can only wander about aimlessly in the present and despair of its future. Having lost its ident…
History of Christianity
Journal Article HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY Get access The Later Christian Fathers. Ed. by HENRY BETTENSON. London. Oxford University Press, 1970 vii + 294 pages. $4.25. DAVID C. STEINMETZ DAVID C. STEINMETZ Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, September 1971, Pages 389-a–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXIX.3.389-a Published: …
Libertas Christiana
Very little is known for certain about John Pupper of Goch. He appears to have been a priest of the archdiocese of Utrecht, who founded a convent in Malines in 1459 and who had previously been a rector in Sluis. He may have studied in Cologne, though that is subject to some doubt, or even in Paris, though that remains to be proven. His importance for history lies not in his founding of the Augustinian convent of Thabor but in his composition of f…
The Necessity of the Past
“The first task of church history as a theological discipline is to free us from our own parochialism and make us truly catholic... There is one commandment and one only which church historians must scrupulously observe: honor thy father and mother. They must accept the past as it offers itself to them.... A church which has lost its memory of the past can only wander about aimlessly in the present and despair of its future. Having lost its ident…
Ecclesia in Via
Scott H. Hendrix. Ecclesia in Via: Eccksiological Developments in the Medieval Psalms Exegesis and the Dictata Super Psalterium (1313-1515) of Martin Luther. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 8.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. 297 pp. Dfl.64. - Volume 29 Issue 3
Calvinism and Scholasticism in Vermigli's Doctrine of Man and Grace
John Patrick Donnelly. Calvinism and Scholasticism in Vermigli's Doctrine of Man and Grace. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 18.) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. 235 pp. Dfl.68. - Volume 30 Issue 3
Luther and the False Brethren . Mark U. Edwards, Jr
Reformation and Conversion
“These four themes from early Protestant thought–the denial of the possibility of preparation for the reception of grace, the insistence on the church as the context in which genuine repentance takes place, the description of conversion as a continuous and lifelong process, and the warning that there is no conversion which does not exact a price from the penitent–are certainly not the only themes which need to be considered by the church in the p…
The Concept of Grace in the Radical Reformation
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Religious Ecstasy in Staupitz and the Young Luther
The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis
“The medieval theory of levels of meaning in the biblical text, with all its undoubted defects, flourished because it is true, while the modern theory of a single meaning, with all its demonstrable virtues, is false. Until the historical-critical method becomes critical of its own theoretical foundations and develops a hermeneutical theory adequate to the nature of the text which it is interpreting, it will remain restricted—as it deserves to be—…
Calvin wider die Neugierde
E. P. Meijering. Calvin wider die Neugierde: Ein Beitrag zum Verglekh zwischen reformatorischem und patristischem Denken. (Bibliotheca Humanistica et Reformatorica, 29.) Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1980. x+122 pp. Drl.55. - Volume 35 Issue 4
Luther and the Ascent of Jacob's Ladder
On the west front of Bath Abbey there are carved two stone ladders stretching from heaven to earth on which twelve angels are climbing, six on each ladder. A tourist who sees the west front of the abbey for the first time is told that the carvings represent the dream of Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells under Henry VII and his former chief secretary. The bishop had a nocturnal vision of angels climbing ladders to heaven. As he stood before th…
Iohannis Calvini Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos
Iohannis Calvini Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. Ed. T. H. L. Parker. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 22.) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. xxiv + 344 pp. Dfl.180. - Volume 40 Issue 4
Luther's Theology of the Cross
Alister E. McGrath. Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Oxford-New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. viii+ 199 pp. $24-95. - Marilyn J. Harran, ed. Luther and Learning: The Wittenberg University Luther Symposium. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1985. 1 pl. + 144 pp. $19-50. - Volume 41 Issue 1
Luther in Context
Calvin and Abraham
It is possible to be so familiar with a subject that one no longer sees its peculiar features. Roger Fry, the English art critic, spoke of a specialization of vision that prevents us from observing familiar objects around us until artists awaken us to the distinctive reality of what we have overlooked by lending us their eyes. Historical discoveries are often very much like an aesthetic awakening. Only a relatively small percentage are prompted b…
Calvin and the Natural Knowledge of God
Theorie et pratique de l'exegese
Luther und Calvin am Jabbokufer
L'A. compare les interpretations du livre de la Genese faites par Luther et Calvin en prenant plus particulierement l'exemple de leurs commentaires respectifs de la scene de la lutte de Jacob avec l'ange. Il compare ces commentaire avec un troisieme datant de l'epoque precedant la Reforme due a Denis (Denis der Karthauser,Dyonisii Carusiani, 1402/3-1471). Ces comparaisons permettent a l'A. d'etablir les points communs et les divergences entre ces…
Reformers in the Wings
This book not only introduces the general reader to twenty of the lesser‐known figures of the sixteenth‐century Reformation but it also outlines the theological issues they debated. It divides the reformers into four confessional families – Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical – with chapters devoted to five representatives from each family. Every chapter introduces a theological problem as well as an engaging figure. Through this collection…
Andreas Bodenstein Von Carlstadt (1480–1541)
Andreas Carlstadt was an early ally of Martin Luther and a colleague on the faculty at the University of Wittenberg. Although he was committed to what appeared to be a common Augustinian theology, he differed with Luther over the pace and extent of the Reformation. Carlstadt opposed images in the church (Luther retained them) and introduced themes from German mysticism into his discussions of justification. For a period of time, he renounced acad…
The Intellectual Appeal of the Reformation
Continuity and Change
Robert J. Bast and Andrew C. Gow, eds. Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History: Essays presented to Heiko A. Oberman on his 70th Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xv + 1 color pl. + 430 pp. bibl. index. $97. ISBN: 9-0041-1633-8. - Volume 56 Issue 3
The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology
The European Reformation of the sixteenth century was one of the most formative periods in the history of Christian thought and remains one of the most fascinating events in Western history. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology provides a comprehensive guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each of the eighteen chapters is written by a leading authority in the field and provides an up-to-date account and analy…
The Catholic Luther
The article traces the changing conceptions of Martin Luther in Protestant and Catholic circles, from the sixteenth century to the present. Catholic theologians first saw Luther as morally flawed, a stubborn heretic whose teaching was in no sense compatible with ancient and medieval Catholic tradition. Though Protestants defended Luther's catholicity, their defense rested in part on a redefinition of what constitutes true catholicity. For modern …
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