Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages. By Ian Christopher Levy
‘The problem was not the authority of Scripture itself but rather its authoritative determination.’ Levy neatly identifies in these terms the problem this book addresses. The rivalry which has been traced by many scholars seeking to understand why the controversies of the late Middle Ages led to the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 772-773 |
| Review of: | Holy Scripture and the quest for authority at the end of the Middle Ages (Notre Dame, Ind : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) (Evans, Gillian)
Holy Scripture and the quest for authority at the end of the Middle Ages (Notre Dame, Ind : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) (Evans, Gillian) |
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| Summary: | ‘The problem was not the authority of Scripture itself but rather its authoritative determination.’ Levy neatly identifies in these terms the problem this book addresses. The rivalry which has been traced by many scholars seeking to understand why the controversies of the late Middle Ages led to the Reformation has commonly been seen in terms of ‘Church’ versus ‘Scripture’. But as this refreshing study reminds us, there was at least third protagonist. This was the exegetical tradition which had developed down the ages in the West and was naturally regarded as ‘authoritative’ in its own right by most of those whose professional business it was to interpret the Latin Bible in lecture or in sermon. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls114 |