History Of Interpretation

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Pak Judaizing Calvin (who)

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Methodist
Steinmetz was her dissertation advisor

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Pak Judaizing Calvin (thesis)

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demonstrate a significant shift that John Calvin introduces into the history of the exegesis of these eight Psalms” (7).
Contrary to those who would declare that Calvin in his reading of the Messianic Psalms is Judaizing, Calvin instead when he reads the Messianic Psalms, in most part, reads the Messianic Psalms as Davidic (not Judaizing, but Christian), examples of protestant piety, and divine providence, but in some/few cases he sees a literal prophecy of Christ kingship and kingdom.

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Pak Judaizing Calvin (agenda)

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point out changes that are from Calvin (anti Calvin bent--she's Methodist after all)

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Pak Judaizing Calvin (importance)

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People writing against Pak are trying to make the claim that confessions are nothing more than social plays. Nicea is nothing more than a social power play of Alexander’s guys trying to lorded over Arias and his guys. What Pak is trying to tell us is this is nonsense. Confessions are rooted in Biblical interpretations. And different confessions arise out of different communities reading the same texts in different ways. And that is why you have Wesley (which Pak is) and Calvin.
Note the difference between Calvin the humanist trained lawyer and Luther the Augustine monk--the shift in interpretation, however still holding to divine nature of the text.
The addition of humanism goes back to the renaissance with its arrogant and stupid cry of ad fonts.

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Pak Judaizing Calvin (importance)

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Calvin and the Modern Critical exegete believe entirely different about the nature of the text. The Modern Critical exegete removes inspiration and they also differ in their interpretation. This change is KEY from Luther and Calvin to Calvin and the Modern Critical interpreter.
Arianism and the shift to historical critical method are the two most important theological shifts in the history of theology.
Arianism Reclassified the Personal word of God
Historical critical interpretation reclassified the literary form of the word of God

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Origen On 1st Principles (who)

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really? you need to look this up?
3rd century Church Father from Alexandria
born in a Christian home in Alexandria
followed Clement or did he?
there was conflict with Demetrius the bishop of Alexandria.
Origen then went to Caesarea Maritima
prolific writer and scholar

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Origen (important works)

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numerous commentaries
numerous homilies
Hexapla (his TC work which modernists love and lament its disappearance)
On First Principles

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Origen On first Principles (Rufinus)

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Rufinus translated Origen into Latin, softened language made him sound more normal. he was a defender of Origen who thought others had perverted Origen's text to make it sound weird and heterodox, so he set out to right their wrong

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Origen On first Principles (Scripture)

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Scripture is divine both OT and NT
The OT is about Jesus. He sees this as clear and sees attempts to understand it about the historical Jews as wrong
The words are composition of God not man
Providence is not abolished because of our ignorance. Just because we can’t understand them doesn’t mean they are fallable. The mistakes like in our interpretation.

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Origen On first Principles (Interpretation Scripture)

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three fold meaning body soul spirit
The bodily interpretation was the obvious, "literal" one; the level of the soul was a middle level, often concerned with ethics; the "spiritual" interpretation utilized a full understanding of the mystery inherent in the text itself.
In practice he is usually a body spirit reader dealing with the two rather than the three.
not all passages have bodily interpretation but all have spiritual.

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Origen On first Principles (Interpretation Scripture--difficult passages)

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its cause you are reading it wrong stupid! if it doesn't make sense it is not designed to be read the way you are.
it is in this we see his less patient attitude to the text. if it seems to contradict his reason and learning then he abandons the plain reading. contrary to modern readers he does not abandon the divine nature of the text, but rather abandons the "plain" reading.

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Martens Contours of Exegetical Life (who)

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Assistant prof of Theological Studies at St. Louis University

" I am currently producing a critical edition, study and translation of Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures, a neglected Antiochene textbook on biblical interpretation. Both books are part of a long-term project to re-think scriptural interpretation in early Christianity."
currently on a research fellowship at Notre Dame
"My next project will be an examination of the doctrine of atonement in late antique Christianity."

http://slu.academia.edu/PeterMartens

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Martens Contours of Exegetical Life (thesis)

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The overarching context in which Origen understood interpreters to labor was from within Salvation history. This history was a threefold act with scriptural exegesis occupying the middle between beginning and end, functioning as a remedy for their humanity’s deficiency gradually reversing the fall. This process did not culminate with the end, but rather continued on after humanity’s restoration “to their original loving and contemplative communion with God” in the final state wherein humanity continued practicing what “they had fleetingly experienced in this life when they studied Scripture” (242)

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Martens Contours of Exegetical Life (importance)

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He brings together the person and the work. removes dichotomy of exegesis and character in seeking to understand Origen (and sees that this goes beyond Origen)

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Martens Contours of Exegetical Life (basics of Origen's thought concerning the exegete)

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Interpreters needed a broad education that was more like receiving diving instruction that acquiring knowledge. They took the best their educational system had to offer and they hijacked it for Christian purposes. They studied languages and literature and all they could but these were insufficient. They needed to go past their education. Additionally their moral character and conduct shaped their interpretation.