Paper Category: Reformation Studies

This paper comparatively examines commentaries by sixteenth-century European reformers on the apostle Paul’s “allegory” in Galatians 4:21–31. Older scholarship on the reformers’ relationship to allegorical exegesis tended to view the reformers as strict literalists. More recent work, in contrast, has frequently argued that the reformers in fact continued to subtly interpret the Bible allegorically, even … Read more

The doctrine of satisfaction, as handed down by both medieval scholastics and early modern theologians (prior to the Socinian controversy), teaches that Christ’s work on the cross was a voluntary and pleasing offering to God which was accepted in lieu of retributive punishment. The evidence presented in this paper demonstrates that the reformer John Calvin … Read more