Calvin and the Christian Tradition: Scripture, Memory, and the Western Mind. R. Ward Holder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 296 pp. $99.99

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 296 pp. $99.99. [...]the actual Calvin can be proven to depend upon tradition in greater and more profound manners than even he recognized” (7). Amidst the host of choices and divisions that marked early modern life in Calvin's times—“Protestan...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 1551 - 1553
Main Author McKim, Donald
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.12.2023
Subjects
Christianity
Evangelicalism
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Theology
Traditions
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Summary:Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 296 pp. $99.99. [...]the actual Calvin can be proven to depend upon tradition in greater and more profound manners than even he recognized” (7). Amidst the host of choices and divisions that marked early modern life in Calvin's times—“Protestant and Catholic, evangelical and Anabaptist, lay and clergy, scholastic and humanistic,” among others—Calvin dealt with the “turmoil” by attempting “both adherence to tradition and to a humanistic model of biblical interpretation” (19).
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2023.582