What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context

by Barbara Pitkin

Overview

Barbara Pitkin traces the way in which Calvin's exegetical labors contributed to his understanding of faith. Through detailed analysis of Calvin's interpretation of selected biblical passages, this study shows how his views evolved. Pitkin describes the gradual development of the mature Calvin's view that faith exhibits a twofold character--saving faith and providential faith--that corresponds to the twofold aspect of its object--Christ as both the incarnate and eternal Son of God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195351835
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/04/1999
Series:	Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	601 KB

Table of Contents

Translations		ix
Introduction		3	(6)
From Fiducia to Cognitio		9	(32)
The Just Shall Live by Faith		41	(29)
From Faith to Faith		70	(28)
Providential Faith		98	(33)
Calvin's Twofold Notion of Faith		131	(34)
Notes		165	(76)
Bibliography		241	(16)
Index		257

Editorial Reviews

"It does not make light reading, for its scholarship is wide-ranging, painstaking and detailed, but the journey is rewarding. It shows us things from the whole of the Calvin corpus which most of us are likely never to have the opportunity to explore in such detail for ourselves."—Bulletin of the Institute for Reformed Theology

"[Pitkin's] study is not only a study of historical theology but also contributes to the history of biblical exegesis."—Theology Digest

"Barbara Pitkin has written a very important work, in which there are numerous insights founded upon consideration of primary sources, analysed within the developing structure of Calvin's Institutes over subsequent editions, and within his continuous output of biblical commentaries."—Theology

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