How Firm a Foundation
Martin Bucer's Historical Exegesis of the Psalms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3445330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Gerald Hobbs (New York Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-491 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3166118 |
| OpenAlex | W2150289926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
In September 1529 the Strasbourg printer, Georg Ulricher of Andlau, exhibited to visitors at his stall in the Frankfurt autumn book fair the first copies of a new commentary on the Psalms. The in-quarto volume, amounting in all to over four hundred folios, purported to be the work of a Lyon humanist, one Aretius Felinus. Its author was in fact Martin Bucer, ex-Dominican, now evangelical pastor and rising star of the Strasbourg church. Bucer's refuge in pseudonymity was an attempt-as he explained in a letter to Zwingli-to facilitate circulation of the work in regions like France and the Low Countries where the name of Bucer was likely to bring it to the attention of censors vigilant to stem the flow of heretical literature. It would do no harm either, as he admitted, to dissociate the volume from the name of one who had played so prominent a role in the still lively evangelical quarrel over the Lord's Supper
Exegesis · Harm · Humanism · Political science · Supper · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |