Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth by Gibson, David

Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567468741)

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Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth by Gibson, David

Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth

$220.00
Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth by Gibson, David

Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth

$220.00
Format: Hardcover
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What role does the interpretation of Scripture play in theological construction? In Reading the Decree David Gibson examines the exegesis of election in John Calvin and Karl Barth, and considers the relationship between election and Christology in their thought. He argues that for both Calvin and Barth their doctrine of election and its exegetical moorings are christologically shaped, but in significantly different ways.

Building on Richard A. Muller's conceptual distinction between Calvin's soteriological christocentrism and Barth's principial christocentrism, Gibson carefully explores their exegesis of the topics of Christ and election, and the election of Israel and the church. This distinction is then further developed by showing how it has a corresponding hermeneutical form: extensive christocentrism (Calvin) and intensive christocentrism (Barth). By focussing on the reception of biblical texts Reading the Decree draws attention to the neglected exegetical foundations of Calvin's doctrine of election, and makes a fresh contribution to current debates over election in Barth's thought.

The result is a study which will be of interest to biblical scholars, as well as historical and systematic theologians alike.

Author: David Gibson
ISBN-10: 0567468747
ISBN-13: 9780567468741
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By David Gibson
By David Gibson
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David Gibson is Assistant Minister at High Church Hilton, Aberdeen. He studied theology at Nottingham University and King's College London, and completed a doctorate at the University of Aberdeen. Francis Watson is Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham and was formerly a holder of the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Aberdeen (1999-2007), as well as a Reader in Biblical Theology, King's College London. Previous publications include: Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles, Text, Church and World, Text and Truth and Agape, Eros, Gender.

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