One of the most complex problems in Christian interpretation of the Bible is the question of what constitutes a ???plain sense??? reading of scripture. This study breaks fresh ground by examining understandings of the plain sense of scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, Professor Greene-McCreight focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad Litteram, libri XII , Calvin's Commentary on the First Book of Moses , and Barth's Church Dogmatics 3.1 . ...
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One of the most complex problems in Christian interpretation of the Bible is the question of what constitutes a ???plain sense??? reading of scripture. This study breaks fresh ground by examining understandings of the plain sense of scripture along a trajectory represented by Augustine, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. Analyzing their readings of Genesis 1-3, Professor Greene-McCreight focuses on Augustine's De Genesi ad Litteram, libri XII , Calvin's Commentary on the First Book of Moses , and Barth's Church Dogmatics 3.1 . The results of this investigation urge an ecumenically significant understanding of the plain sense of scripture: within this theological trajectory, reading according to the plain sense involves a negotiation between the constraints of verbal sense and the Rule of Faith.
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